Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood
Movie| Title | Naissance d'un héros noir au cinéma : Sweet Sweetback |
| User score | 8 |
| Release date | Mar 16, 2022 |
| Genre | Documentary, History |
| Director | Catherine Bernstein , Martine Delumeau |
| Production country | France |
| Production companies | 13 Prods, ARTE, Pop'Films |
| Run time | 53 min. |
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.
