Goodbye Uncle Tom

Having toured the real world's horrors in Mondo Cane and Africa Addio, Jacopetti and Prosperi went one further and reconstructed American slavery from the ground up, casting themselves as modern reporters wandering the antebellum South with a crew. They shot it in Haiti under Papa Doc Duvalier with a cast of thousands, and the manner of that production is a large part of why the film is so hard to defend. Roger Ebert called it one of the most disgusting films ever made; others have read it as blistering anti-racist satire, and it has never settled which it is.

The natural next stop after Africa Addio, and a charter member of the indefensible shelf.