Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood (2022)
- HD 1080
- Runtime: 53m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: fr
- Country: France
- Director: Catherine Bernstein, Martine Delumeau
- Stars: Sandra Nkake, Melvin Van Peebles, Max Van Peebles, Marguerite Van Peebles, Mike Sargent
- keywords: cinema on cinema, blaxploitation cinema, cinema history, usa cinema
- Production_studio: 13 Prods, ARTE, Pop'Films
- providers: fuboTV, Paramount+ with Showtime, Paramount Plus Apple TV Channel, Paramount+ Amazon Channel
- The Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood is featured in the top rankings of 2022
- #85 in Top Documentary Movies of 2022
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.