Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is a 1971 American independent blaxploitation action thriller film written, co-produced, scored, edited, directed by...

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is the soundtrack to Melvin Van Peebles' 1971 feature film of the same name. The soundtrack was performed by then-unknown...

by Mario himself), as he attempts to film and distribute Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, a film that was widely credited with showing Hollywood that...

series The Wonder Years. The title is a reference to the film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. Baby Gerald, Luigi Risotto, Assistant Superintendent Leopold...

entire soundtrack of the Melvin Van Peebles feature film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. The soundtrack, composed by Van Peebles, was released in...

released his best-known work, creating and starring in the film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, considered one of the earliest and best-regarded examples...

expanding the audiences of blaxploitation films. Variety credited Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and the less radical Hollywood-financed film Shaft (both released...

to Live.[citation needed] In 1971, he appeared in the film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. Melvin Van Peebles directed and played the lead role, and...

three-picture contract, instead developing the independent film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. The music for Watermelon Man, written and performed by Van...

Valley of the Dolls, The Street Fighter, A Clockwork Orange, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, Fritz the Cat, Flesh Gordon, Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated...

Clark. The film was released following the successes of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and Shaft, notable 1971 films that popularized black cinema...

Was... Is! Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" (commentary accompanying Xenon Entertainment DVD release of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song). Warren, Bill...

discusses the historical importance of his landmark film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. For a perspective contemporary to the documentary, director...

examples of this subgenre were Shaft and Melvin Van Peebles' Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. Others are Black Caesar, Black Devil Doll, Blacula, Black...

(soundtrack), Isaac Hayes in Shaft, and Earth, Wind & Fire for Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. James Brown was approached to author the soundtracks for...

Was...Is! Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" (commentary accompanying Xenon Entertainment DVD release of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song). Worland,...

Dead, Kalifornia, The Thing with Two Heads, Apollo 13 and Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. On stage he appeared in repertory theatre as Pablo in the...

ever-growing importance to new black helmers via 1971's breakthrough Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song make this a package with shelf life for cinematheques, schools...

Killaz". In 2009, he released We Were Hippies, an album of original country songs by Gene and Eric Cash. In 2021, Amos starred in Because of Charley, as the...

little over $1 million, earning less than a fourth of what Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song did at the same time and falling to below 50 in the charts...

filmed in 1972 as Van Peebles' follow-up to his hit film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, but he could not find a distributor, and subsequently wound...

(1932) Them! (1954) Hot Rod Girl (1956) Point Blank (1967) Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) Top of the Heap (1972) That Man Bolt (1973) Freaky...

Death and As Serious as a Heart-Attack Watermelon Man (1970) Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death (1972) Don't...

Melvin Van Peebles' struggles to film and distribute the movie Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. His son, Mario Van Peebles both directed the film and portrayed...

and since the recently released Melvin Van Peebles film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, which was released through Cinemation, had received both...

Board of Education Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice Sweet sorghum Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song Swing! "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" Swing (jazz...

hailed it as "the most important Black produced film since Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song." Writing in 2014, critic Scott Foundas described the film...

Retrieved January 21, 2020. Hemphill, Jim (June 29, 2018). "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, the Films of Jamaa Fanaka and Personal Problems: Jim Hemphill's...

described Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, directed by Melvin Van Peebles, as "a textbook on guerrilla filmmaking" in his review of Baadasssss!, a biopic...

are said to have invented the genre: Melvin Van Peebles' Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, about a poor Black man fleeing the white police, and featuring...