In his grand old age, John Henrik Clarke sits down and has an adult conversation with documentarian St. Clair Bourne, telling him of his life as one of the early pioneers in Black studies, and in turn, encapsulating a great deal of civil...

This documentary retraces the genesis of a hard-hitting film, an unprecedented cinematographic gesture that has become an essential reference and that gave birth to the Blaxploitation movement. Sweet Black Film is a tribute to filmmaker Melvin...