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Mondo film is a subgenre of exploitative documentary films. ... The term shockumentary is also used to describe the genre.
Mondo Cane (a somewhat coarse Italian expletive, [2] literally ' dog world ') is a 1962 Italian mondo documentary film and directed by the trio of Gualtiero Jacopetti, Paolo Cavara, and Franco E. Prosperi, with narration by Stefano Sibaldi.
The Killing of America (Japanese: アメリカン・バイオレンス, Hepburn: Amerikan baiorensu, "American violence") is a 1981 Japanese–American documentary and mondo film directed by Sheldon Renan and Leonard Schrader. The film was premiered in New York City in February 1982 and was shown at the 2013 Fantasia Festival. [1]
Women of the World (original title La donna nel mondo) is a 1963 Italian mondo film, also described as a "shockumentary", written and directed by filmmakers Gualtiero Jacopetti, Paolo Cavara, and Franco Prosperi.
Africa Addio (lit. ' Goodbye Africa ' or ' Farewell Africa '; also known as Africa: Blood and Guts in the United States and Farewell Africa in the United Kingdom) is a 1966 Italian mondo documentary film co-directed, co-edited and co-written by Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco E. Prosperi with music by Riz Ortolani.
Gualtiero Jacopetti was born in Barga, in Northern Tuscany, in 1919.During World War II, he served in the Italian Resistance to fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. [2] After the war, on the advice of his friend and mentor Indro Montanelli, he began to work as a journalist. [3]
Faces of Death (later re-released as The Original Faces of Death) is a 1978 American mondo horror film written and directed by John Alan Schwartz, credited under the pseudonyms "Conan Le Cilaire" and "Alan Black" respectively.
Traces of Death is a 1993 American mondo film that consists of various scenes of stock footage depicting death and real scenes of violence.. Unlike the earlier Faces of Death which usually included fake deaths and reenactments, Traces consists mostly of actual footage depicting death and injury, and consists also of public domain footage from other films.