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Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood
Release Date:Release date TBD
Running Time:53 min
Genres:History, Documentary
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Synopsis
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.
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