RAREFILMS - Mondo - Documentary films on DVD
Addio ultimo uomo (1978)
Also known as:: Farewell the Last Man (original title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Documentary, Mondo
Director: Alfredo Castiglioni
Cast: Riccardo Cucciolla (voice)
Medium: DVD R/RW
Addio Zio Tom (1971)
Also known as:: Goodbye Uncle Tom (original title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Mondo
Director: Gualtiero Jacopetti
Cast: Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot Outline: Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.
Afferra il tempo (1973)
Also known as:: Seize the Time (alternative title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Documentary
Director: Antonello Branca
Cast: Norman Jacob
Medium: DVD R/RW
Subtitles: Italian
Africa addio (1966)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Documentary, Mondo
Director: Gualtiero Jacopetti
Cast: Sergio Rossi (voice)
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: From the producers of the Mondo Canes comes this violent document of a continent in transition; the change from white colonialism to independent black statehood. Often times, this resulted in the wholesale massacre of thousands of people and the indiscriminate extermination of wild life. Captured on film are mercenary killer squads wiping out entire villages, executions, Mau-Mau massacres and more!
Africa ama (1971)
Also known as:: Africa Uncensored (English title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Documentary
Director: Alfredo Castiglioni
Cast: Riccardo Cucciolla (voice)
Medium: DVD R/RW
Africa in crisi (1959)
Also known as:: Come Back Africa (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Drama, Documentary
Director: Lionel Rogosin
Cast: Miriam Makeba, Vinah Makeba, Zachria Makeba, Molly Parkin
Medium: DVD R/RW
Subtitles: French
Plot: Documentary on the apartheid system of official racial separation in South Africa and how it affects South Africans, from ordinary citizens to international stars like singer Miriam Makeba.
African safari (1968)
Also known as:: Rivers of Fire and Ice (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Adventure, Documentary
Director: Ronald E. Shanin
Cast: Michael Rye
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: An account of a safari through Africa by wildlife photographer Ron Shanin.
All'armi siam fascisti DVD (1962)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Documentary
Director: Lino Del Fra
Cast: Cecilia Mangini, Lino Miccichè
Medium: DVD R/RW
America così nuda così violenta (1970)
Also known as:: Amérique nue et violente (French title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Documentary, Mondo
Director: Sergio Martino
Cast: Gianfranco Vene, Elizeth Cardoso, Edmund Purdom
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: American problem expose concentrating on sex and violence.
America di notte (1961)
Also known as:: América a medianoche (Spanish title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Documentary, Mondo
Director: Giuseppe Maria Scotese
Medium: DVD R/RW
America paese di Dio DVD (1967)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Documentary, Mondo
Director: Luigi Vanzi
Medium: DVD R/RW
L'amore primitivo (1964)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Comedy, Documentary, Mondo
Director: Luigi Scattini
Cast: Jayne Mansfield, Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Mickey Hargitay, Carlo Kechler, Lucia Modugno, Alfonso Sarlo, Eugenio Galadini, Riccardo Cucciolla (voice)
Medium: DVD R/RW
Angeli bianchi... angeli neri (1970)
Also known as:: The Occult Experience (English title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Mondo, Documentary
Director: Luigi Scattini
Cast: Alberto Bevilacqua (voice), Alberto Bevilacqua, Anton LaVey, Edmund Purdom (voice)
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A mondo style report of satanic rites from around the world. Includes devil worshipping, voodoo cults, church of satan, black magic, naked exorcism and pagan rituals.
Appunti per un'Orestiade africana (1970)
Also known as: Apuntes para una Orestíada africana (Spanish title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Documentary, Mondo
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast: Gato Barbieri, Donald F. Moye, Marcello Melio, Yvonne Murray, Archie Savage
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot Outline: The director presents takes and scenes filmed on location in Africa for a film-that-never-was, a black Oresteia.
Banana republic (1979)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Musical, Documentary
Director: Ottavio Fabbri
Cast: Rosalino Cellamare, Lucio Dalla, Francesco De Gregori, Franco Di Stefano, Fabio Liberatori, Marco Manni, Giovanni Pezzoli, Ricky Portera
Medium: DVD R/RW
Basic training DVD (1971)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Documentary
Director: Frederick Wiseman
Medium: DVD R/RW
Subtitles: Italian
Calcutta DVD (1969)
Also known as: Calcutta DVD (original title)
Country: France
Spoken Languages: French
Genre(s): Documentary
Director: Louis Malle
Cast: Louis Malle (voice)
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: With minimal narration by the director and very little context this is a kaleidoscope of stunning visuals from Calcutta, a city of 8,000,000 in the late 1960's: rich and poor, exotic and mundane, secular and religious, children and adults, animate and inanimate. Given only the images, the viewer can read any meaning she or he wants into the film.
Il cervello della Russia Sovietica DVD (1919)
Also known as: Mozg Sovetskoi Rossii DVD (original title)
Country: Russia
Genre(s): Documentary
Director: Dziga Vertov
Medium: DVD R/RW
Subtitles: Italian
Cinema innocente DVD (1979)
Also known as: Cinema Inocente DVD (original title)
Country: Brazil
Spoken Languages: Portuguese
Genre(s): Documentary, Short
Director: Júlio Bressane
Cast: Júlio Bressane, Leovegildo Cordeiro, Nunes Pereira
Medium: DVD R/RW
Subtitles: Italian
Una coppia sposata DVD (1969)
Also known as: A Married Couple (original title)
Country: Canada
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Documentary, Drama
Director: Allan King
Cast: Billy Edwards, Antoinette Edwards, Bogart Edwards
Medium: DVD R/RW
Cotone DVD (1959)
Also known as: Baumwolle DVD (original title)
Country: West Germany
Spoken Languages: German
Genre(s): Short, Documentary
Director(s): Edgar Reitz
Medium: DVD R/RW
Subtitles: Italian
La cronaca di Hellstrom DVD (1971)
Also known as: The Hellstrom Chronicle DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Drama, Documentary
Director: Walon Green
Cast: Lawrence Pressman
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A scientist explains how the savagery and efficiency of the insect world could result in their taking over the world.
Dante's inferno DVD (1967)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Documentary, Biography
Director: Ken Russell
Cast: Oliver Reed, Judith Paris, Andrew Faulds, Iza Teller, Christopher Logue, Gala Mitchell, Pat Ashton, Clive Goodwin, David Jones, Norman Dewhurst, Tony Gray, Douglas Gray, Derek Boshier, Caroline Coon, Janet Deuters
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A movie about jealousy, and the complex and painful relationship between Rossetti and his sickly wife, Elizabeth. They are members of the upper-crust layer of society, bourgeois painters, poets and philosophers. Rossetti struggles with his own emotions for his wife, as she refuses his sexual advances before they marry, and, once they do marry, she is unable to bear him any children. She believes he has impregnated another woman (a model), commits suicide, and, as he chooses to bury his best poems with her coffin, he is driven insane when confronted with the idea of exhuming her coffin and retrieving the book to sell to his fans.
Le Dee dell'amore DVD (1965)
Also known as: The Love Goddesses DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Documentary
Director: Saul J. Turell
Cast: Carl King (voice), Agnes Ayres, Theda Bara, Brigitte Bardot, Richard Barthelmess, Ingrid Bergman, Clara Bow, Clive Brook, Louise Brooks, Horst Buchholz, Maurice Chevalier, Montgomery Clift, Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: This documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry changed it's depiction of sex and actresses portrayal of sex from the silent movie era to the present. Classic scenes are shown from the silent movie, True Heart Susie, starring Lillian Gish, to Love Me Tonight (1932), blending sex and sophistication, starring Jeanette MacDonald (pre-Nelson Eddy) and to Elizabeth Taylor in, A Place in the Sun (1951), plus much , much more.
Dipingi di giallo il tuo poliziotto DVD (1970)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Documentary
Director: Pier Francesco Pingitore
Cast: Nadia Cassini, Beryl Cunningham, Silvia Petroni, Sergio Tramonti
Medium: DVD R/RW
Le dolci notti DVD (1962)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Documentary, Mondo
Director: Vinicio Marinucci
Medium: DVD R/RW
La donna è uno spettacolo DVD (1964)
Also known as: La femme spectacle DVD (original title)
Country: France
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Documentary, Mondo
Director: Claude Lelouch
Cast: Marie-Ange Aniès, Jean d'Estrée, France-Noëlle, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Jean Lescot, Janine Magnan, Victoria Nankin, Richard Saint-Bris, Jean Yanne
Medium: DVD R/RW
La donna nel mondo DVD (1963)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Mondo, Documentary
Director: Paolo Cavara
Cast: Stefano Sibaldi (voice)
Medium: DVD R/RW
Dove non è peccato DVD (1970)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Documentary, Mondo
Director: Antonio Colantuoni
Medium: DVD R/RW
E vivono tutti felici e contenti DVD (1974)
Also known as: Animals Are Beautiful People DVD (original title)
Country: South Africa
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Comedy, Documentary
Director: Jamie Uys
Cast: Paddy O'Byrne (voice)
Medium: DVD R/RW
Ebbrezza bianca DVD (1931)
Also known as: Der weisse Rausch (original title)
Country: Germany
Spoken Languages: German
Genre(s): Documentary
Director: Arnold Fanck
Cast: Hannes Schneider, Leni Riefenstahl, Rudi Matt, Lothar Ebersberg, Guzzi Lantschner, Walter Riml, Otto Lantschner, Harald Reinl, David Zogg, Josef Gumboldt, Hans Kogler, Luggi Foeger, Benno Leubner, Hans Salcher, Kurt Reinl
Medium: DVD R/RW
Europa di notte DVD (1959)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Documentary, Mondo
Director: Alessandro Blasetti
Cast: Alba Arnova, The Princesse Badia, Dolly Bell, Armando Calvo, Le Carroussel Quintero, Raffaella Carrà, Carmen Casarrubios, Coccinelle, Il Complesso Sovietico Berioska, Il Coro d'Ucraina, Il Coro Dei Bandouristes, The Croq Messieurs, Rolland D'Avell, Danzatori Ukraini Orly, Graziella Granata
Medium: DVD R/RW
Eva la verità sull'amore DVD (1966)
Also known as: Der Arzt stellt fest DVD (original title)
Country: Switzerland
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Drama, Documentary
Director: Aleksander Ford
Cast: Tadeusz Lomnicki, René Deltgen, Margot Trooger, Dieter Borsche, Charles Regnier, Peter Oehme, Louis V. Arco, Hermann Frick, Sabine Bethmann, Gert Westphal, Irmgard Delschneider, Gisela Glietz, Ursula Heyer, Vera Jesse, Peter Kummer
Medium: DVD R/RW
F come falso DVD (1973)
Also known as: Vérités et mensonges DVD (original title)
Country: France
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Documentary
Director: Orson Welles
Cast: Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Joseph Cotten, François Reichenbach, Richard Wilson, Paul Stewart, Alexander Welles, Gary Graver, Andrés Vicente Gómez, Julio Palinkas, Christian Odasso, Françoise Widhoff, Peter Bogdanovich (voice), William Alland (voice)
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Orson Welles' free-form documentary about fakery focusses on the notorious art forger Elmyr de Hory and Elmyr's biographer, Clifford Irving, who also wrote the celebrated fraudulent Howard Hughes autobiography, then touches on the reclusive Hughes and Welles' own career (which started with a faked resume and a phony Martian invasion). On the way, Welles plays a few tricks of his own on the audience.
Faccia di spia DVD (1975)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Documentary, Horror
Director: Giuseppe Ferrara
Cast: Adalberto Maria Merli, Mariangela Melato, Francisco Rabal, Riccardo Cucciolla, Pietro Valpreda, Claudio Camaso, George Ardisson, Ugo Bologna, Dominique Boschero, Lou Castel, Francesco De Bilio, Giuseppe Di Bella, Antonia Forlani, Gérard Landry, Marcello Mandò
Medium: DVD R/RW
Fangio: Una vita a 300 all'ora DVD (1980)
Country: Panama
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Documentary
Director: Hugh Hudson
Cast: Juan Manuel Fangio
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A documentary of Fangio's life with his own testimony.
Festa di bellezza DVD (1938)
Also known as: Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit DVD (original title)
Country: Germany
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Documentary, Sport
Director: Leni Riefenstahl
Cast: Sheigo Arai, Jack Beresford, Ralf Berzsenyi, Ferenc Csík, Richard Degener, Willemijntje den Ouden, Charles des Jammonières, Velma Dunn, Konrad Frey, Marjorie Gestring, Albert Greene, Tetsuo Hamuro, Josef Hasenöhrl, Heinz Hax, Alois Hudec
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: After being commissioned by the 1936 Olympic Committee to create a feature film of the Berlin Olympics, Riefenstahl shot a documentary that celebrates the human body by combining the poetry of bodies in motion with close-ups of athletes in the heat of competition. The production tends to glorify the young male body and, some say, expresses the Nazi attitude toward athletic prowess. Miss Riefenstahl captures the grace of athletes during field hockey, soccer, bicycling, equestrian, aquatic and gymnastic events. Highlights are the Pentathlon and the Decathlon, which was won by American Glenn Morris; it ends with the triumphant conclusion of the games.
Follie di notte DVD (1978)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Documentary, Musical, Erotic, Mondo
Director: Joe D'Amato
Cast: Amanda Lear
Medium: DVD R/RW
La foresta che vive DVD (1972)
Also known as: Bij de beesten af DVD (original title)
Country: Netherlands
Spoken Languages: Dutch
Genre(s): Documentary
Director: Bert Haanstra
Cast: Anton Koolhaas, Alexander Scourby
Medium: DVD R/RW
Formula 1 febbre della velocità DVD (1978)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Documentary
Director: Ottavio Fabbri
Cast: James Coburn, Gene Hackman, David Niven, Michael York, Mario Andretti, James Hunt, Niki Lauda, Carlos Alberto Reutemann, Sydne Rome, Ugo Tognazzi
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Documentary about the worlds most important car racing, shot on worldwide slopes, interspersed with interviews with famous riders, like Lauda, Reuteman, Andretti, Fittipaldi, Hunt, Patrese and many others. A documentary, without a hint of sociological analysis on the background of these drivers however.
Fortezze vuote DVD (1975)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Documentary
Director: Gianni Serra
Medium: DVD R/RW
Fortini/Cani DVD (1977)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Documentary
Director: Danièle Huillet
Cast: Franco Fortini, Luciana Nissim, Adriano Aprà
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: The film is a sort of presentation of Franco Fortini's book 'I Cani del Sinai'. Fortini, an Italian Jew, reads excerpts from the book about his alienation from Judaism and from the social relations around him, the rise of Fascism in Italy, the anti-Arab attitude of European culture. The images, mostly a series of Italian landscape shots, provide a backdrop that highlights the meaning of the text.
Forza Italia! DVD (1978)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Documentary
Director: Roberto Faenza
Cast: Richard Nixon, Alcide De Gasperi, Amintore Fanfani, Nunzio Filogamo, Giovanni Leone, Giuseppe Saragat
Medium: DVD R/RW
I fratelli del vento DVD (1973)
Also known as:: Brother of the Wind DVD (original title)
Country: Canada
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Adventure, Documentary
Director: Dick Robinson
Cast: Leon Ames (voice), Dick Robinson
Medium: DVD R/RW
Fratello mare DVD (1975)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Documentary
Director: Folco Quilici
Cast: Atai Rairoa, Tiami Tetoca
Medium: DVD R/RW
Future shock DVD (1972)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Documentary, Short
Director: Alexander Grasshoff
Cast: Orson Welles
Medium: DVD R/RW
Futuro impedito DVD (1970)
Also known as: Behinderte Zukunft? DVD (original title)
Country: West Germany
Spoken Languages: German
Genre(s): Documentary
Director: Werner Herzog
Cast: Rolf Illig, Adolf Ratzka
Medium: DVD R/RW
Subtitles: Italian
Gente del Po DVD (1947)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Documentary, Short
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Medium: DVD R/RW
Germania in autunno DVD (1978)
Also known as: Deutschland im Herbst DVD (original title)
Country: West Germany
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Documentary
Director: Alf Brustellin
Cast: Wolfgang Bächler, Heinz Bennent, Wolf Biermann, Joachim Bißmeier, Caroline Chaniolleau, Hans Peter Cloos, Otto Friebel, Hildegard Friese, Michael Gahr, Vadim Glowna, Helmut Griem, Hannelore Hoger, Petra Kiener, Dieter Laser, Horst Mahler
Medium: DVD R/RW
Il giaguaro della giungla DVD (1959)
Also known as: Jungle cat DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Family, Documentary
Director: James Algar
Cast: Winston Hibler
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: This documentary chronicles the life of a female spotted jaguar in the South American jungle.
I giganti del brivido DVD (1971)
Also known as: Once upon a wheel DVD (original title)
Country: Canada
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Documentary
Director: David Winters
Cast: Stephen Boyd, Chuck Connors, Kirk Douglas, Hugh Downs, Glenn Ford, James Garner, Dean Paul Martin, Paul Newman, Cesar Romero, Dick Smothers, Mario Andretti, Wilt Chamberlain, Pancho González, Art Johnson, Al Unser Sr.
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A documentary from 1968 on the history of car racing.
Il giro del mondo in 80 minuti DVD (1931)
Also known as: Around the World with Douglas Fairbanks DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Documentary
Director: Douglas Fairbanks
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Duke Kahanamoku, Kamiyama Sôjin
Medium: DVD R/RW
