Gualtiero Jacopetti

The original "shockumentary" consisting of a collection of mostly real archive footage displaying mankind at its most depraved and perverse, displaying bizarre rituals, cruel behavior, and animal violence. (imdb)

Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade. (imdb)

A study of women around the world, focusing mostly on bizarre and often shocking rituals.

Christopher Brown stars as Candido, a free spirit who lives in a Baron's fabulous castle. Candido's gleeful routine is shattered when the Baron spots him face down in his chaste daughter Cunegonda's crotch and banishes the lad from his castle. Suddenly, poor Candido is thrust into a cruel land. He's "recruited" into an army that trains its soldiers to use their bare heads as battering rams, only to be slaughtered by modern troops with machine guns and flame throwers. (shockcinemamagazine.com)

The original shockumentary sequel made up of episodes in the life of man and beast, filmed all over the world - New Guinea, Germany, Singapore, Portugal, Australia, America and beyond. This time around, the voyage includes vivisection, recreations of old west lynchings, a visit to a mortician's school, transvestites, wild sex clubs and alligator hunting. (imdb)

The second official sequel to the original shockumentary, displaying cruel acts of animal poaching and violence, executions, and tribal slaughtering, all taking place on the African continent.

In true Mondo form the film starts off with a visit to a slaughterhouse and then takes off on a non-stop sonic run through Africa in search of firewalkers, Snake charmers, babes in bikinis and anything strange and unusual. Finally, the film ties everything together with a special focus on witchdoctors and their sundry rites and mutilations. (Sujit R. Varma)