page_title: Exploitation film
section_title: Blaxploitation
hierarchical_section_title: Exploitation film / Subgenres / Blaxploitation
caption_attribution_description: English: Poster for the independent film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
context_page_description: An exploitation film is a film that attempts to succeed financially by exploiting current trends, niche genres, or lurid content. Exploitation films are generally low-quality "B movies". They sometimes attract critical attention and cult followings. Some of these films, such as Night of the Living Dead, set trends and become historically important.
context_section_description: Black exploitation films, or "blaxploitation" films, are made with black actors, ostensibly for black audiences, often in a stereotypically black American urban milieu. A prominent theme was black Americans overcoming hostile authority ("The Man") through cunning and violence. The first examples of this subgenre were Shaft and Melvin Van Peebles' Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. Others are Black Caesar, Black Devil Doll, Blacula, Black Shampoo, Boss Nigger, Coffy, Coonskin, Cotton Comes to Harlem, Dolemite, Foxy Brown, Hell Up in Harlem, The Mack, Disco Godfather, Mandingo, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Sugar Hill, Super Fly, T.N.T. Jackson, The Thing with Two Heads, Truck Turner, Willie Dynamite and Cleopatra Jones.
  Modern homages of this genre include Jackie Brown, Pootie Tang, Undercover Brother, Black Dynamite, and BlacKkKlansman. The 1973 Bond film Live and Let Die uses blaxploitation themes.
caption: Poster for the independent film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
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