This documentary starts out interesting with lots of historic facts about the earliest black movies that were made, with lots of interesting interviews by big Hollywood names like Samuel L Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, Harry Bellafonte and Sidney Poitier.
The bad: but after an hour this documentary veers of into all sorts of directions, becoming disjointed and long in the tooth.
It is as if this director simply had no control over his urge to namedrop as many film classics as possible and then start analysing what was wrong with them.
Recommended watch for the first hour, but I fear not many will stay focussed till the very end, because this documentary unfortunately peters out after the first hour.
The bad: but after an hour this documentary veers of into all sorts of directions, becoming disjointed and long in the tooth.
It is as if this director simply had no control over his urge to namedrop as many film classics as possible and then start analysing what was wrong with them.
Recommended watch for the first hour, but I fear not many will stay focussed till the very end, because this documentary unfortunately peters out after the first hour.