You are watching Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood the movie produced in France belongs with duration 53 Min in Category Documentary,History,. broadcast at streamingjoy.com , by [ 13 Prods ] ,[ ARTE ] 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..