Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
 Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is a 1971 American independent drama film written produced scored directed by and starring Melvin Van Peebles father of actor Mario Van Peebles (who is also in the movie). It tells the picaresque story of a poor African American man on his flight from the white authority. Van Peebles began to develop the film after being offered a three-picture contract for Columbia Pictures.