Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood

Overview

In 1971, director Melvin Van Peebles turned the figure of the black hero in US cinema upside down with Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: the story of the making of a seminal movie that initiated the Blaxploitation movement, a short-lived but highly influential sub-genre in the years that followed.

Cast

Sandra Nkake

Self - Narrator (voice)

Melvin Van Peebles

Self

N/A

Max Van Peebles

Self

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Marguerite Van Peebles

Self

N/A

Mike Sargent

Self

Mario Van Peebles

Self

Reginald Hudlin

Self

N/A

Sandra Rush

Self

N/A

Donna Dubrow

Self

Bill Duke

Self

N/A

Philip Hart

Self

Mandela Van Peebles

Self