Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)
Directed by Gualtiero Jacopetti
Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.
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What critics compared Goodbye Uncle Tom to
Within some exploitation ideals (Africa Addio, the excellent Goodbye Uncle Tom), the brutality and terror were matched by a semblance of reality, but for the most part, Hollywood hates the idea of making a movie about what really happened.
An early scene in which slave trader Theophilus Freeman (Paul Giamatti) prods naked slaves for the benefit of prospective buyers offers an alarming yet in-no-way-arousing corrective to an equivalent sequence in the tasteless 1971 mock-doc “Goodbye Uncle Tom,” which lingers on the nudity and degradation of such a market.