Goodbye Uncle Tom 1971
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Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.
Goodbye Uncle Tom (Italian: Addio Zio Tom) is a 1971 Italian film directed by Mondo film documentary directors Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi with music by Riz Ortolani.
The film is based on true events in which the filmmakers explore antebellum America, using period documents to examine in graphic detail the racist ideology and degrading conditions faced by Africans under slavery.
Because of the use of published documents and materials from the public record, the film labels itself a documentary, though all footage is re-staged using actors Though the film is presented as a documentary, it is more of a historical drama or docudrama because of its fantasy framing device of the directors travelling back in time combined with the re-staging of historical events.
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