Bonnie and Clyde, crime film, released in 1967, that pioneered a new era of filmmaking, tearing down barriers in the depiction of violence and sexuality. The movie was based on the Great Depression-era robbery team known as Bonnie and Clyde. Clyde Barrow (played by Warren Beatty) turns a chance
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The Circus, American silent film, released in 1928, that was one of Charlie Chaplin’s most acclaimed movies, earning him a special Academy Award for directing, producing, and writing the production. In the film the Tramp (played by Chaplin) joins the circus as an inept janitor only to be exploited
La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc, (French: “The Passion of Joan of Arc”) French silent film, released in 1928, that was an acclaimed and historically accurate account of the trial and execution of Saint Joan of Arc in 1431. (Read Lillian Gish’s 1929 Britannica essay on silent film.) The inventive film is
Blaxploitation movies, group of films made mainly in the early to mid-1970s that featured Black actors in a transparent effort to appeal to Black urban audiences. Melvin Van Peebles’s Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971) is usually considered to be the first blaxploitation movie.