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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

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

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.

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.

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.