How a Century of Black Westerns Shaped Movie History

Chris Klimek Host, "There's More to That" Mario Van Peebles is a fundamentally American filmmaker. Born in Mexico to an African American father—the iconoclastic filmmaker, actor, musician and playwright Melvin Van Peebles—and a German mother, then raised in the United States and Europe, Van Peebles brought an international, mixed-heritage perspective with him when he followed in his dad’s professional footsteps.…