Posts tagged Gordon Parks Jr.
The Legendary Gordon Parks Sr's Career Began and Ended Strongly With the Seminal Coming of Age Movie The Learning Tree and Powerful Biopic Leadbelly
The Legendary Gordon Parks Sr's Career Began and Ended Strongly With the Seminal Coming of Age Movie The Learning Tree and Powerful Biopic Leadbelly

Like his son, Gordon Parks Sr. only directed a handful of movies, but that’s all it took to change movies forever with classics like his 1969 debut The Learning Tree, the first studio film directed by a black man, 1972’s Shaft and his powerful final film, the 1976 biopic Leadbelly.

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First and Last 2.0Nathan RabinGordon Parks Sr, Gordon Parks Jr., Blaxploitation, Coming of Age, debut, landmarks, black film