Honestly, there should be a whole biopic about the Blaxploitation boom in the 70s. These movies *saved* the major studios and when they were done, somehow Hollywood couldnt find a place for many of the actors that starred in them. Same thing happened in the 1990s with hood movies.
They tried to typecast these actors, especially Ron O' Neal who was a trained actor ,and probably was more qualified than any white actor of the era.He showed how great of an actor he was by his role as Youngblood Priest aka Superfly.Did such a great job, whitey probably thought he was a street dude for real.
@Cue Truth I hate that term.I still say black movies.I admit not all the actors were good or great, but there was alot of talented ones who should've ended up being HUGE stars if given the opportunity.
So if they could make these films thenand save those big studios. Those same type of films can be made and distribute independently by and for a blk audience. Not to mention the profit goes directly to the film and makers. Smaller budget better profit upfront plus ownership of the film.
The blaxpoitation era kept everybody and their mama at the movies for a whole decade. Can't outdo or touch the original classics. And the soundtrack was a must have. Nothing like it today.
As a student of hip hop and just African American culture in general, this was a very informative documentary. There should be modern versions of Black movies in this style in 2021
Yes indeed this era was the best I even dress like the women did back then and I have always wanted to relive that era everything I do is because of my admiration for the late 60s and 1970s era it was one of a kind ☺️
Excellent Documentary! I grew up in the 70's, as a kid these films as well as certain TV sitcoms were on our daily menu of entertainment, it was the norm, little did I realize until years later that my generation was the first generation to see a regular Black presence in mainstream American media outside the music industry.
This Is Reel Good. This Voices of The People Talking In The Documentary Is So Exciting. I Love My Black People They Are Marvelous. In Everything They Do!😊❤ YES BLACK HOLLYWOOD YES.
Dolomite , Shaft, Jackie Brown . The swag and style these movies had was special. And they were made during hard economic times in America. The 70s was 2 decades long in one decade.
@@williebowen1043 it's not Academy stuff just light entertainment. Rudy Ray Moore filmed in a rich friend's house and nightclubs .Low budget but the first one made money. ☺
I GREW UP DURING THIS GENERATION AND I AM PROUD TO SAY POWER TO THE PEOPLE I ENJOYED EVERY ONE OF THOSE MOVIES AND I TRULY MISS THEM! THANKS YOU! YOU TUBE FOR TAKING ALL OF US BACK IN THE DAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY IN 2021!
The documentary is: "Hell Up in Hollywood"; on Van Peebles' film, the X rating was self-imposed. Pam Grier is multi-talented, pianist, and singer as well as actress.
There's something cosmically hilarious about MGM getting their start from "Birth of a Nation" only to wind up needing afro-centric movies to stay afloat.....the universe is undefeated
mannnn..... Black Mama, White Mama: Coffy,.... please I NEVER should have seen those movies as a teen. had me getting in ALL kinds of trouble talking to Mr. Charlie in high school 🤣😂🤣
Awesome Documentary...History making, opening doors for actors, technical staff and and most important black screenwriters. Thank you...for leading the way...which led the way to the making of Black Panther.
Thank you Kevin Burns and Eric Jackson. If there is/was a Hall of Fame for the journey that reveals the path and pathology of the relationship Black folk have had with Traditional Hollywood film making this documentary would be in it. I am a witness to that era and the movement. Keep creating these jewels, we need them like we need clean air to breathe.
just wanted to shout out the legend winston willis for having the presence of mind to create locations in Cleveland, Ohio like the Scrumpty Dump and Hippodrome where they'd show these great movies in triple features...can't image the 70s without them!!!...thank you sir!!!
Hmm at least in this case they was tryna make money cause if that was the goal they would have kept making those films even tho it brought in little profit. Some accountability for ones actions would be nice instead of thinking your prey in every instance.
Me neither! Honestly, my family bought movies from people selling them off the streets (not always bootleg but hood movies) so I thought it was mainly underground. I didn’t know it was major productions
@@tukayz254 it has nothing to do with knowing black history. The documentary itself said that it was a short era, one that didn’t get popular until its later years. If you’re watching a blaxploitation documentary on your own accord, you know your black history
The one show I've never seen on your great channel is the PBS series Our Street from the 70s. I was a little kid and my dad used to watch it and I've been looking for it for years. I JUST found out Howard Rollins had an early role in it. Love the channel!
@@asanitheafrofuturist No. It was for a lack of a better term, a soap opera or a network style drama. Only it was on PBS and they were Black and I was really young when it aired but I remember my family watching it. SOUL can be found on Tubi or ShoutTV's streaming service.
@@fruff30 stop the segregation, halle berry is black,the problem we have in the community is still that we don't appreciate us well enough,our appreciation is just in the moment.
C Vinyl.If you have any interest in the movies of this era..THAT IS THE BOOK TO OWN.I have it at my bedside and go through it to see what movies I haven't seen or might be interested in seeing.A MUST READ.
I grew up after this era, mom I guess wasn't into these kind of movies so I never watched em, and my dad (more likely to have been into them) passed when I was young. Hip hop was honestly my introduction, I haven't watched many but this doc has me wanting to block off some time this weekend to get caught up.
🎞 What a treasure gem -reel black & nice share. Thankfully this history will never fade. Blaxplotation Movie's Documentary. Black cinema at its best, after leading ladies Lena Horne in "Stormy Weather " and Dorothy Dandridge & Diahann Carroll in "Carmen Jones", A Raisin In The Sun. We had the undeniable exciting films coming on the scene. Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams & Richard Pryor in "Lady Sings The Blues" , Mahogany & Cicely Tyson in Sounder. Couldn't wait til I was grown to see👀 Christy Love , Buck and The Preacher, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte', Legendary directors as Gordon Parks, Van Peebles, and Ossie Davis captured brilliant actresses & actors... Paul Winfield, Vonetta McGee, Lonette Mckee, Rosey Grier, Lola Falana, Freda Payne, Julius Harris, Leslie Uggams, The Landlord, Spanish Harlem "Superfly" Priest 💫 Ron O'Neal, The Mack , Shaft's Issac Hayes and that bad soundtrack on 8-Track (oh yeah), Richard Roundtree, Sheila Frazier, Coffy, Pam Grier, Tamara Dobson, Robert Hooks, Glynn Turman, J D's Revenge, Fred Williamson, Gloria Hendry , Jim Kelly, Leon & Jayne Kennedy , Sugar Ray Leonard, Cleopatra Jones. R-E-S-P-E-C-T to our trailblazers. Melvin and Mario Van Peebles , Posse ',Black Westerns ,Native Indians, Black Cowboys and Cowgirls 🧡 #CooleyHigh #CottonComesToHarlem! #BlackHollywood #BlackFilmakers #BlackMusic #Ebony #SoulSoundtrack A Singer's life...
Blaxpoitation is not an ugly word created by J. Griffin, Beverly Hills-Hollywood , NAACP Branch president. The films were transformative to Black gangster love. Too ambiguous to even give it a genre as these films evolved. This was a revolution finally our Black power has a voice! The word itself is not negative. It was a impactful era telling our bold Blackness film by film through the Black cinema. #neverforget #BlackCinema
Rip Mr Isaac Hayes and rip Mr Melvin van Peebles and rip Mr Ruby ray Moore ❤️❤️❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️🙏🏿❤️🙏🏿❤️🙏🏿❤️🙏🏿🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏿🙏🏾♥️❤️♥️❤️🙏🏿🙏🏾🙏🏿🙏🏾🙏🏿🙏🏾🙏🏿🙏🏾🙏🏿🙏🏾🙏🏿🙏🏾🙏🏿❤️🙏🏿🙏🏿❤️❤️❤️🙏🏿❤️🙏🏿❤️🙏🏿❤️🙏🏿❤️❤️🙏🏿🙏🏾🙏🏿
Thanks for your effort. Brother I am a white Irish lad but I am making leaflets to show young black lads on our project the true history and that they are not a minority black people own the earth in effect.
In the 70's there was Also Mahogany, Sounder, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, The Great White Hope. All great movies. But of course enjoy very much Blaxploitation films.
@@DianaCaroleHartSistaSoulJaHart I met Mario Van Peoples when he was 12, I was 11. Met him through mutual best friend. Strange how life's journey goes. I'm retired battling prostate cancer (64). Mario is famous and wealthy and our friend became a psychologist in the ATL only to die at the young age of 34 yrs of massive heart attach. Sigh...life.
May I say that in 1970-1975, we didn't care about blaxploitation. Matter of fact, to my knowledge, there was no such word as blaxploitation. When me and my homies went to the movies, all we wanted to see were black faces. Personally, I was in awe of Pam Grier lol. My favorite film during that era was Shaft and SuperFly.
1972-1976 I was 9- 13 yrs old.I used to go to the Melba theater in the Bronx almost every Saturday with my sister, 2 friends from my block and sometimes my cousin all who were YOUNGER than me and saw almost every black movie that was out then.They had 1st runs every Thursday night that my mom and her co workers used to go see.My mom never realized we saw the same movies she saw on Thursday night.She thought because the theater opened at 11:30am we were watching G rated movies or cartoons.These actors and actresses were OUR heroes.We always won.I fell in love ( and still am) with Pam Grier.Although he wasn't black, Bruce Lee also was a hero to us in the hood.Coolest Chinese dude EVER!!
I was around the same age. We used to go to the Dover Theater on Southern Blvd in the BX; I first saw Return of the Dragon there and Buck and the Preacher.
@@missayawk Wow...I don't remember the Melba. The Dover was right in front of the 174th Train Station. Last time I was there was 2010--I think a Dunkin Donuts is there now.
@@RX552VBK The Bronx was LOADED with theaters back then.The Kent, Dover, Loews Paradise, RKO Fordham, Valentine, Wakefield, Allerton,Melba, even the drive- in at Bruckner.I know I might have forgotten one or a few, but those are the ones I remember.
Damn I wish I can go back to the seventies I really do I miss that era so much wow ! I want to ask you something I've been kind of curious about is Rosey Grier Pam Girer brother?
Superfly and Black Caesar were probably the best soundtracks ever.Curtis Mayfield and James Brown could've made those as " regular" soundtracks and they still would've went gold.
Wow! This makes me cry, and I was only listening [doing something else] in the first half. Because of the word 'Blaxploitation' maybe, I have put watching a doccie on 'watch later' for the longest; all the while trying to figure out what's going on with 'Urban culture'. I guess they didn't let many of them get out of America, because the only such movies I saw as a child were 'Cleopatra Jones', 'Let's do it Again', and 'Takes a Hard Ride'... or 'I never knew James Earl Jones acted before Coming to America'. My childhood would have been different. My parents knew Sidney Poitier. I heard he did 'To Sir with Love'. Africa is a different place.
I never saw any of these movies. I have only seen a few movies ever. My father told me the purpose of these movies. I watched the movies from my generation mold the streets. There is definitely a connection.
I’ve seen a lot of these movies. Yes I agree some were horrible. But they made some great classics. Super fly, Cuffy, sheba Baby, Blacula, sugar Hill and the Mack. Are some of favourites.
Having growing up in the late 60's/early 70;s these films set me on a course of great soul/funk/jazz music,as well as many great films dumped on the B-C pile...
Thanks to the NAACP, a whole successful segment of an industry was ended by 1980. Then they went back to complaining about Blacks not getting employed in Hollywood. Guess they have to complain about something to stay relevant. These films were no worse than the images and lyrics in hip hop videos and records. Go figure.
I want to have my own studio 🎬🎬 film, theatre, television, acting, & animation. I want to represent Black films, black stage plays , animation & television shows I want to have blaxpolitation films from the 70s. I want to write stories about Black America, Africa, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-European, Afro-Canadian, & Afro-Latino 🎥🎬🎬 I want to be different then all the famous its my turn to tell my stories
There should be "SPOILER ALERT" in all caps somewhere on this film because it tells the juicy stuff that happens in the movies they cover in this documentary. I'm like dam, I'm glad I saw a couple of these 70s movies already before watching this doc.
In my humble opinion, which doesn't count for much, I believe Halle Berry Oscar award was a gift. Denzel Washington Oscar was earned. Halle Berry's was charity. Halle Berry is a great actress but I believe her Oscar came from pressure put on the industry.
@@lyricsession4461 I would like an indepth documentary about her - up until her untimely death. A lot of stuff around the net about her including a group run on a social media platform as rehashed out of date news. No one has featured very last pictures , videos or interviews of her , which is sad
Props to Mario, for the shout out to your Dad. I hated the term,'blackploitation'. It was Art. Better work than today, although less sophisticated. The bad films were😄 just bad movie, not a critique on the culture.
41:55 Clarence Williams 3rd..aka Lincoln Hayes ( Mod Squad).One of the few black actors on a prime time TV show, but ironically didn't star in any of these black movies.I wonder if that was by choice, because like Ron O'Neal, he was also a trained actor.
I thought it was a trip watching Ron O'neal play "Priest" in Superfly in 72, then see him play the Executive Officer of the U.S.S. NIMITZ in The Final Countdown in 79.
Shiela Frazier is better looking the Hollie Barry to me. Much better in complexion and facial definition ,she is just hands down far more Foxy then Hallie Barry 2 me.
I've always said Hallie Berry is pretty but overrated because she lacks that extra sex appeal, or foxiness as you mentioned. She's the Toyota Camry of females, not the new Camry's fully loaded though lol.
I want to learn more about black filmmakers from the past before Spike Lee, Tyler Perry, Ava Duvernay like Oscar Micheaux & others. I want to learn about Blaxpolitation . I'm always these white celebrities always winning some black stars win in the Emmys, Oscars, Tony Awards. I have nothing against race at all. I want to do something for Black Pride 1st I want my version of Film , Broadway awards I want to gather Black American, Africans, Afro-European, Afro-Canadian, Afro-Polynesian, Afro-Caribbean & Afro-Latino together for film, theatre, animation. Because of MLK's I have a dream speech I dream to be an film director having my own studio & having my girls of love 💕 company . Girls Of Love💕 Represent my favorite color pink , Black America🇺🇸, Africa, Caribbean, & Afro-Latina Girls its the opposite of Barbie, American girl dolls, & bratz dolls this project will never be for Trump Supporters I'm so disappointed in the black ppl who support Trump & think He not a racist Trump is a racist & I'll never support this evil white racist man. Its my turn to tell my stories I need supporters
Honestly, there should be a whole biopic about the Blaxploitation boom in the 70s. These movies *saved* the major studios and when they were done, somehow Hollywood couldnt find a place for many of the actors that starred in them. Same thing happened in the 1990s with hood movies.
I agree. I could see this as a Netflix movie!
They tried to typecast these actors, especially Ron O' Neal who was a trained actor ,and probably was more qualified than any white actor of the era.He showed how great of an actor he was by his role as Youngblood Priest aka Superfly.Did such a great job, whitey probably thought he was a street dude for real.
@Cue Truth I hate that term.I still say black movies.I admit not all the actors were good or great, but there was alot of talented ones who should've ended up being HUGE stars if given the opportunity.
@Tanya Gladden No doubt.Also the voice of the trailers was also in that movie.The one and only ADOLPH CAESAR!!!
So if they could make these films thenand save those big studios. Those same type of films can be made and distribute independently by and for a blk audience. Not to mention the profit goes directly to the film and makers. Smaller budget better profit upfront plus ownership of the film.
Isaac Hayes looked 45 his entire life, whether he was 29 or 65. 👀
Facts!
😂😂 Did you lie tho!
That because it that sexy melanin count black people have
Once he starts singing you'd let him knock you off princess ,i mean look @ the president trump and Biden they look like yoda🤣😂😎
I cant un-see it ..now …😁
The blaxpoitation era kept everybody and their mama at the movies for a whole decade. Can't outdo or touch the original classics. And the soundtrack was a must have. Nothing like it today.
We just started a new Blaxploitation film studies class at the University of Louisville. Hoping to give greater space to these incredible works.
As a student of hip hop and just African American culture in general, this was a very informative documentary. There should be modern versions of Black movies in this style in 2021
Yes indeed this era was the best I even dress like the women did back then and I have always wanted to relive that era everything I do is because of my admiration for the late 60s and 1970s era it was one of a kind ☺️
Excellent Documentary! I grew up in the 70's, as a kid these films as well as certain TV sitcoms were on our daily menu of entertainment, it was the norm, little did I realize until years later that my generation was the first generation to see a regular Black presence in mainstream American media outside the music industry.
This Is Reel Good. This Voices of The People Talking In The Documentary Is So Exciting. I Love My Black People They Are Marvelous. In Everything They Do!😊❤ YES BLACK HOLLYWOOD YES.
Dolomite , Shaft, Jackie Brown . The swag and style these movies had was special. And they were made during hard economic times in America. The 70s was 2 decades long in one decade.
Dolemite sucked
@@williebowen1043 it's not Academy stuff just light entertainment. Rudy Ray Moore filmed in a rich friend's house and nightclubs .Low budget but the first one made money. ☺
You probably meant Foxy Brown, as Jackie Brown is from 1997 and made with plenty of money
@@christophej4923 yup, Jackie Brown was in the 90s.👏
REEL BLACK IS WHERE IT’S AT 🔥🔥 I’ve put so many friends on to your channel!
I GREW UP DURING THIS GENERATION AND I AM PROUD TO SAY POWER TO THE PEOPLE I ENJOYED EVERY ONE OF THOSE MOVIES AND I TRULY MISS THEM! THANKS YOU! YOU TUBE FOR TAKING ALL OF US BACK IN THE DAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY IN 2021!
So glad I found you...I'm so proud to be black👸🏽
Thank you 😊
😊❤✊🏿
Shout out to the Sista in the documentary, telling the truth about the contribution of Curtis Mayfield.
Sheila Frazier 💗
Damn this is almost 20 year's old I remember watching this documentary as a kid when it first aired
The documentary is: "Hell Up in Hollywood"; on Van Peebles' film, the X rating was self-imposed. Pam Grier is multi-talented, pianist, and singer as well as actress.
There's something cosmically hilarious about MGM getting their start from "Birth of a Nation" only to wind up needing afro-centric movies to stay afloat.....the universe is undefeated
Till this day your thumbnail of Foxy Brown is the wallpaper on one of my phones 😭
Love this channel 🤎
I HAD COFFEY, SHEBA BABY & TNT JACKSON POSTERS.
mannnn..... Black Mama, White Mama: Coffy,.... please I NEVER should have seen those movies as a teen. had me getting in ALL kinds of trouble talking to Mr. Charlie in high school 🤣😂🤣
Awesome Documentary...History making, opening doors for actors, technical staff and and most important black screenwriters. Thank you...for leading the way...which led the way to the making of Black Panther.
Thank you Kevin Burns and Eric Jackson. If there is/was a Hall of Fame for the journey that reveals the path and pathology of the relationship Black folk have had with Traditional Hollywood film making this documentary would be in it. I am a witness to that era and the movement. Keep creating these jewels, we need them like we need clean air to breathe.
just wanted to shout out the legend winston willis for having the presence of mind to create locations in Cleveland, Ohio like the Scrumpty Dump and Hippodrome where they'd show these great movies in triple features...can't image the 70s
without them!!!...thank you sir!!!
So happy seeing Earl Jones looking soooo young.The best part of this documentary for me
They tried to destroy the images of black people but these movies are classic
True but the music was great : )
@@thebeatcreeper yes awesome 😎
Hmm at least in this case they was tryna make money cause if that was the goal they would have kept making those films even tho it brought in little profit. Some accountability for ones actions would be nice instead of thinking your prey in every instance.
Who is they?
@@henochparks Hollywood
Wow I didn't realize how big of an era of movies this was for us. This is crazy to me
Me neither! Honestly, my family bought movies from people selling them off the streets (not always bootleg but hood movies) so I thought it was mainly underground. I didn’t know it was major productions
@@tukayz254 it has nothing to do with knowing black history. The documentary itself said that it was a short era, one that didn’t get popular until its later years.
If you’re watching a blaxploitation documentary on your own accord, you know your black history
"Shaft" belongs in the Library Of Congress, and the Smithsonian. Shaft was a badass sumbitch. 👍
Yes!!!!
Shut your mouth!
Shut yo mouth! 😆🤣😂
Indeed he was!
The one show I've never seen on your great channel is the PBS series Our Street from the 70s. I was a little kid and my dad used to watch it and I've been looking for it for years. I JUST found out Howard Rollins had an early role in it. Love the channel!
Was it similar to the show Soul? I just heard about that show bc there's a new documentary about its history
@@asanitheafrofuturist No. It was for a lack of a better term, a soap opera or a network style drama. Only it was on PBS and they were Black and I was really young when it aired but I remember my family watching it. SOUL can be found on Tubi or ShoutTV's streaming service.
These people still look absolutely great! They age like fine wine!!
People were real quick to forget about Gloria Hendry, Lashana Lynch and Grace Jones but they remember Halle Berry. I don't understand that. 4.3.2021
how old r u
Are we all fighting here again?
Halle Berry is bi-racial so of course black people are going to put her on a pedastal over darker skinned actresses.
@@fruff30 stop the segregation, halle berry is black,the problem we have in the community is still that we don't appreciate us well enough,our appreciation is just in the moment.
@@Ibrahim29514 How does 1 white parent and 1 black parent =Black?
I have the Blaxploitation cinema book by Josiah Howard!
What a great read!📙
C Vinyl.If you have any interest in the movies of this era..THAT IS THE BOOK TO OWN.I have it at my bedside and go through it to see what movies I haven't seen or might be interested in seeing.A MUST READ.
Yes!!!!! I have NEVER seen this! reelblack is Excellence! Thank you so much!
They don't play these movies anymore but I'm glad that l can watch them on here I'm so grateful
Great documentary, thanks for posting! That scene with the sista in the James Bond movie game me so much anxiety!
I grew up after this era, mom I guess wasn't into these kind of movies so I never watched em, and my dad (more likely to have been into them) passed when I was young. Hip hop was honestly my introduction, I haven't watched many but this doc has me wanting to block off some time this weekend to get caught up.
🎞 What a treasure gem -reel black & nice share. Thankfully this history will never fade.
Blaxplotation Movie's Documentary.
Black cinema at its best, after leading ladies Lena Horne in "Stormy Weather " and Dorothy Dandridge & Diahann Carroll in "Carmen Jones", A Raisin In The Sun. We had the undeniable exciting films coming on the scene. Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams & Richard Pryor in "Lady Sings The Blues" , Mahogany & Cicely Tyson in Sounder.
Couldn't wait til I was grown to see👀 Christy Love , Buck and The Preacher, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte', Legendary directors as Gordon Parks, Van Peebles, and Ossie Davis captured brilliant actresses & actors... Paul Winfield, Vonetta McGee, Lonette Mckee, Rosey Grier, Lola Falana, Freda Payne, Julius Harris, Leslie Uggams, The Landlord, Spanish Harlem "Superfly" Priest 💫 Ron O'Neal, The Mack , Shaft's Issac Hayes and that bad soundtrack on 8-Track (oh yeah), Richard Roundtree, Sheila Frazier, Coffy, Pam Grier, Tamara Dobson, Robert Hooks, Glynn Turman, J D's Revenge, Fred Williamson, Gloria Hendry , Jim Kelly, Leon & Jayne Kennedy , Sugar Ray Leonard, Cleopatra Jones. R-E-S-P-E-C-T to our trailblazers.
Melvin and Mario Van Peebles , Posse ',Black Westerns ,Native Indians, Black Cowboys and Cowgirls 🧡
#CooleyHigh #CottonComesToHarlem!
#BlackHollywood #BlackFilmakers #BlackMusic #Ebony #SoulSoundtrack
A Singer's life...
Blaxpoitation is not an ugly word created by J. Griffin, Beverly Hills-Hollywood , NAACP Branch president. The films were transformative to Black gangster love. Too ambiguous to even give it a genre as these films evolved.
This was a revolution finally our Black power has a voice!
The word itself is not negative.
It was a impactful era telling our bold Blackness film by film through the Black cinema.
#neverforget #BlackCinema
many Many MANY THANKS for sharing this gem
I love this type of documentary. It's apart of our history. In a time when people loathed blacks , but admired them at the same time.
They still loathe blacks young brother and always will
Everyone wants to be us, but doesn't wanna be us.
Rip Mr Isaac Hayes and rip Mr Melvin van Peebles and rip Mr Ruby ray Moore ❤️❤️❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️🙏🏿❤️🙏🏿❤️🙏🏿❤️🙏🏿🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏿🙏🏾♥️❤️♥️❤️🙏🏿🙏🏾🙏🏿🙏🏾🙏🏿🙏🏾🙏🏿🙏🏾🙏🏿🙏🏾🙏🏿🙏🏾🙏🏿❤️🙏🏿🙏🏿❤️❤️❤️🙏🏿❤️🙏🏿❤️🙏🏿❤️🙏🏿❤️❤️🙏🏿🙏🏾🙏🏿
Thanks for a brilliant documentary.
The great content is always much appreciated @ReelBlack.
I have most of these films on DVD!
Classics!
Thanks, keep 'em coming.
Thanks for posting this documentary,learned a lot.Didn't these black films saved hollywood's bacon!!! LOL!!! Had to watch it twice.
Thanks for your effort. Brother I am a white Irish lad but I am making leaflets to show young black lads on our project the true history and that they are not a minority black people own the earth in effect.
This was Great documentary Thanks !
Thank you Melvin and Mario .🌠🌠🌠🌠
In the 70's there was Also Mahogany, Sounder, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, The Great White Hope. All great movies. But of course enjoy very much Blaxploitation films.
This is a good documentary!!Thanks for posting!!
Oh this brings back memories (I was 17)
made me cry 😂#Thanks4theMemories
🥰💓💗💓🥰
Yea, I was 15! Great movies for the era.
Loved BuckAndThePreacher
Yeah totally agree it totally was insulting as they went on! It was all about the money!
@@DianaCaroleHartSistaSoulJaHart
I met Mario Van Peoples when he was 12, I was 11. Met him through mutual best friend. Strange how life's journey goes. I'm retired battling prostate cancer (64). Mario is famous and wealthy and our friend became a psychologist in the ATL only to die at the young age of 34 yrs of massive heart attach. Sigh...life.
Keep them coming. Like the hits. Reel black. Reel good entertaining.📺🎬🎞️🎭🎫
Trouble man, shaft, and black caesar were my favorites! I watch trouble man at least once a month.
Thank you! 😊❤
Thank you for this amazing documentary, Mike. I have viewed these classic films so many times and never stop enjoying them.
Good historical and educational overview. Appreciate it. Thank you.
We need to see the person behind this wonderful channel once you hit 1mill!!
Thanks for the upload
May I say that in 1970-1975, we didn't care about blaxploitation. Matter of fact, to my knowledge, there was no such word as blaxploitation. When me and my homies went to the movies, all we wanted to see were black faces. Personally, I was in awe of Pam Grier lol. My favorite film during that era was Shaft and SuperFly.
1972-1976 I was 9- 13 yrs old.I used to go to the Melba theater in the Bronx almost every Saturday with my sister, 2 friends from my block and sometimes my cousin all who were YOUNGER than me and saw almost every black movie that was out then.They had 1st runs every Thursday night that my mom and her co workers used to go see.My mom never realized we saw the same movies she saw on Thursday night.She thought because the theater opened at 11:30am we were watching G rated movies or cartoons.These actors and actresses were OUR heroes.We always won.I fell in love ( and still am) with Pam Grier.Although he wasn't black, Bruce Lee also was a hero to us in the hood.Coolest Chinese dude EVER!!
I was around the same age. We used to go to the Dover Theater on Southern Blvd in the BX; I first saw Return of the Dragon there and Buck and the Preacher.
@@RX552VBK I remember the Dover, but never went there.Lived in the northeast Bronx.Melba was located on Boston Rd between Fish and Seymour Avenues.
@@missayawk Wow...I don't remember the Melba. The Dover was right in front of the 174th Train Station. Last time I was there was 2010--I think a Dunkin Donuts is there now.
@@RX552VBK The Bronx was LOADED with theaters back then.The Kent, Dover, Loews Paradise, RKO Fordham, Valentine, Wakefield, Allerton,Melba, even the drive- in at Bruckner.I know I might have forgotten one or a few, but those are the ones I remember.
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'Cotton Comes To Harlem' is my favorite, loved Judy Pace. 😍
Afer seeing this, I have an even greater respect for Tyler Perry. The People REALLY need to support this man.
Mike L Tyler makes terrible movies. And what man wants to see a man in a dress 24/7.
Damn I wish I can go back to the seventies I really do I miss that era so much wow ! I want to ask you something I've been kind of curious about is Rosey Grier Pam Girer brother?
Pam Gier still the finest .. that body dammmmmmn
Don't forget Car Wash ...great soundtrack too ;-)
Car Wash was good.
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Pam grier was hot as hell and still is.
Amazing woman. I had the pleasure of meeting her at a fan convention once. She was very kind and humble.
Pam Grier is a hottie
So true. Ms. Grier is absolutely stunning!
Pam Grier was a film groundbreaker, but, of course I would be foolish to not notice she had great breast.
If iwasto be beaten up by a woman it would HAVE to be Taura Satana dressed in black, if i was bitten by a vampire it would HAVE to be Ingrid Pir
I miss when movies had good music! New movies have soundtracks with less funk than a breadstick.
Superfly and Black Caesar were probably the best soundtracks ever.Curtis Mayfield and James Brown could've made those as " regular" soundtracks and they still would've went gold.
Also Claudine
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2:58 when you really want to use rappers delight but cant afford the rights to the song
Great documentary! Thanks
NO LIST OF GREATEST FILMS EVER MADE IS COMPLETE WITHOUT SUPER FLY - 🎥🐐✔💯
Wow! This makes me cry, and I was only listening [doing something else] in the first half. Because of the word 'Blaxploitation' maybe, I have put watching a doccie on 'watch later' for the longest; all the while trying to figure out what's going on with 'Urban culture'. I guess they didn't let many of them get out of America, because the only such movies I saw as a child were 'Cleopatra Jones', 'Let's do it Again', and 'Takes a Hard Ride'... or 'I never knew James Earl Jones acted before Coming to America'. My childhood would have been different. My parents knew Sidney Poitier. I heard he did 'To Sir with Love'. Africa is a different place.
I never saw any of these movies. I have only seen a few movies ever. My father told me the purpose of these movies. I watched the movies from my generation mold the streets. There is definitely a connection.
Psychological warfare is real
"You keep the moral victory, Let me Win"
AWESOME!
Another great black movie was COOLIE HIGH,starred Glynn Turman in the 1970s
It was well put together, thank you
I’ve seen a lot of these movies. Yes I agree some were horrible. But they made some great classics. Super fly, Cuffy, sheba Baby, Blacula, sugar Hill and the Mack. Are some of favourites.
Literally some of the most baddass films ever made....
Rudy Ray Moore is a GOD amongst men lol
Having growing up in the late 60's/early 70;s these films set me on a course of great soul/funk/jazz music,as well as many great films dumped on the B-C pile...
Can't cite rappers influenced by these movies without Camp Lo.
Thanks to the NAACP, a whole successful segment of an industry was ended by 1980. Then they went back to complaining about Blacks not getting employed in Hollywood. Guess they have to complain about something to stay relevant. These films were no worse than the images and lyrics in hip hop videos and records. Go figure.
Mic drop
Yeah, right. I don't trust any organization that was infiltrated, bastardized, and outright played by Rachel Dolezal.
@Cue Truth I do remember hearing that
I want to have my own studio 🎬🎬 film, theatre, television, acting, & animation. I want to represent Black films, black stage plays , animation & television shows I want to have blaxpolitation films from the 70s. I want to write stories about Black America, Africa, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-European, Afro-Canadian, & Afro-Latino 🎥🎬🎬 I want to be different then all the famous its my turn to tell my stories
There should be "SPOILER ALERT" in all caps somewhere on this film because it tells the juicy stuff that happens in the movies they cover in this documentary. I'm like dam, I'm glad I saw a couple of these 70s movies already before watching this doc.
In my humble opinion, which doesn't count for much, I believe Halle Berry Oscar award was a gift. Denzel Washington Oscar was earned. Halle Berry's was charity. Halle Berry is a great actress but I believe her Oscar came from pressure put on the industry.
I would love to see a full documentary about Tamara Dobson of Cleopatra Jones . Do you know if anyone has a plans to do this?
Yessss 🙏🏾 💪🏾👸🏾 she was too badass
@@lyricsession4461 I would like an indepth documentary about her - up until her untimely death. A lot of stuff around the net about her including a group run on a social media platform as rehashed out of date news. No one has featured very last pictures , videos or interviews of her , which is sad
All the men and women of that Era..Super tough! Super Bad! 👊 ✊ 🤛
Props to Mario, for the shout out to your Dad. I hated the term,'blackploitation'. It was Art. Better work than today, although less sophisticated. The bad films were😄 just bad movie, not a critique on the culture.
from my foggy memory this is what i remember the way things were . ill be 57 in two months god willing
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Great historical movies of yezteryears but lives on thru our mind's & replaying in thezes tymes of yezteryears....Jimi(Chattanooga)
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41:55 Clarence Williams 3rd..aka Lincoln Hayes ( Mod Squad).One of the few black actors on a prime time TV show, but ironically didn't star in any of these black movies.I wonder if that was by choice, because like Ron O'Neal, he was also a trained actor.
Neither did Sammy Davis Jr, Stu Gilliam, George Kirby and Leslie Uggams & Greg Morris and Gregory Hines.
I thought it was a trip watching Ron O'neal play "Priest" in Superfly in 72, then see him play the Executive Officer of the U.S.S. NIMITZ in The Final Countdown in 79.
@@zande0001 Ron O' Neal was a very talented and trained actor.Too bad roles for all people of color was limited and still is.
It's not about black or white, it's about the green.
Lol...it's about BOTH!!!
Some great unsung talent...
Shiela Frazier is better looking the Hollie Barry to me. Much better in complexion and facial definition ,she is just hands down far more Foxy then Hallie Barry 2 me.
I've always said Hallie Berry is pretty but overrated because she lacks that extra sex appeal, or foxiness as you mentioned. She's the Toyota Camry of females, not the new Camry's fully loaded though lol.
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The cycle has transferred to the music industry today. Nothing new under the sun indeed
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I want to learn more about black filmmakers from the past before Spike Lee, Tyler Perry, Ava Duvernay like Oscar Micheaux & others. I want to learn about Blaxpolitation . I'm always these white celebrities always winning some black stars win in the Emmys, Oscars, Tony Awards. I have nothing against race at all. I want to do something for Black Pride 1st I want my version of Film , Broadway awards I want to gather Black American, Africans, Afro-European, Afro-Canadian, Afro-Polynesian, Afro-Caribbean & Afro-Latino together for film, theatre, animation. Because of MLK's I have a dream speech I dream to be an film director having my own studio & having my girls of love 💕 company . Girls Of Love💕 Represent my favorite color pink , Black America🇺🇸, Africa, Caribbean, & Afro-Latina Girls its the opposite of Barbie, American girl dolls, & bratz dolls this project will never be for Trump Supporters I'm so disappointed in the black ppl who support Trump & think He not a racist Trump is a racist & I'll never support this evil white racist man. Its my turn to tell my stories I need supporters
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