![María Montez: The Movie](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/q8cfaj3sxvaup1aWZ4WaIjiV494.jpg)
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.