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.

• DirectorCatherine Bernstein
• Release16 March 2022
• Genre
  Documentary / History
• Duration0h 53m
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  8.0
  3 reviews
• Productions

  13 Prods, ARTE, Pop'Films