Goodbye Uncle Tom

Goodbye Uncle Tom (Addio zio Tom, 1971) is available to watch online on iFILM — a raw pseudo-documentary by Italian mondo filmmakers Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi. Two camera operators travel back in time to the antebellum American South and film the slave trade as if it were a live location shoot.

The duo behind Mondo Cane point the lens at auction blocks, plantation quarters and the legal texts that made it all possible — real period documents read against staged scenes with deliberate documentary coldness. The technique collapses the distance between historical record and visceral image.

Released in 1971, it remains one of the most contested films in the mondo genre: critics have argued over whether it is an indictment of American racism or exploitation dressed up as conscience ever since. Stream Goodbye Uncle Tom online on iFILM and decide for yourself.