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Director: Mark Daniels
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From Time Out Film Guide
Excellent, polemical documentary presented by the director of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song on the history of black cinema from DW Griffith to the 'counter-revolutionary' blaxploitation era and the ghetto gangster genre of the present. Peebles spills his articulate spleen on all and sundry (only Spike Lee, Julie Dash and John Singleton come off lightly) in an elegant rant that scores some scorching points aimed at 'the brothers', but which is pertinent to anyone interested in black representation in the cinema.Author: WH
Cast & crew
Director: Mark Daniels
Producer: Yves Jeanneau, Christine LeGoff
Cast: archive Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, Melvin Van Peebles full cast
Genre(s): Documentaries
Duration: 52 mins
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