Dubious documentaries (enjoy but be skeptical)
includes pseudo-docs, quasi-docs, faux-docs, salacious docs, fake docs, exploitation docs, propaganda docs, docudramas, mockumentaries, shockumentaries, pornumentaries, faked footage, mondo, infotainment, etc.
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- DirectorBenjamin ChristensenStarsBenjamin ChristensenElisabeth ChristensenMaren PedersenFictionalized documentary showing the evolution of witchcraft, from its pagan roots to its confusion with hysteria in Eastern Europe.
- DirectorWilhelm PragerNicholas KaufmannStarsJosephine BakerAnita BerberKitty CauerThe perfect body as an object of cult worship. Based on the mass sports and body worship movement of the 1920s, the film propagates physical training and shows in stylized documentary scenes aspects of physical hygiene, gymnastics, sports and dancing as well as scenes in which supposed sportsmen of antiquity pose naked.
- DirectorMichael MindlinStarsLeo DonnellyVincent BurkeIlka DieballUsing some stock footage and voice-over narration, this film examines the phenomenon of nudism throughout the world. Beginning in ancient Greece, the film tells of the origins of the nudist movement in the 4th and 5th centuries to the present.
- DirectorDwain EsperStarsVivian McGillRose TapleyAl RigaliThis exploitation film belongs to the social guidance genre of quasi-documentary narratives, which exhort young adults to follow particular moral and social prescriptions related to sexuality and drug use.
- DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsWard BondJoseph CrehanSamuel S. HindsDocumentary detailing the dangers and treatment of venereal disease. Tony Medroni is excited about the imminent birth of a son, but when the child is born dead, Tony must face the fact that his own sexual history has caused the child's death. A doctor explains the problem to Tony and discusses other cases with a colleague.
- StarsVictor English
- StarsHomer BlodgettFilmed lecture given by "Dr. Homer Blodgett" that purports to be about sex education and promoting more open discussions about sexuality. In reality, the film was an exploitation roadshow film made to promote and sell the book "The Art of Love: Your Sex Problems Solved."
- DirectorWinifred HolmesStarsWinifred HolmesThe National Committee for Visual Aids in Education was behind this informative film that illustrates the arrival of the "special time" for young women. She's growing older. Her body is changing. What's it all about? GROWING GIRLS is here to explain.
- DirectorGordon SchindlerA video "marriage manual" explains differences between sexes.
- DirectorZygmunt SulistrowskiStarsKazuo AokiAndrea BayardAry BlausteinExploitation documentary: A white girl is part of an expedition into the dark Amazon jungle. In addition to native nudity (sex) there are animal killings (violence).
- DirectorRay PhoenixStarsQuentin ReynoldsJohannes Galilee ShembeA documentary exploring some of the tribes of South Africa, the wildlife, and some of the descendants of the Indian immigrants that settled in the country.
- DirectorGeorge WatsonStarsJoe MiksakBoys Clubs of San FranciscoThe coach of a freshman track team explains the intricacies of the male reproduction system, and how to use it, to his team.
- Three children drop by Bob's Fixit Shop with questions about nature. He explains reproduction to them using the fish in his aquarium. First is the Betta splendens, an aggressive fish breed where the male builds a nest and raises the babies. Then, Bob shows them the Egyptian mouthbrooders, a breed where the mother carries the eggs in her mouth until they hatch.
- StarsArt GilmoreAn exploitation pot-boiler, posing as an anthropology art-film, and supposedly filmed by seventeen different cameraman in Africa, Malaya, India, Ceylon, Bali, New Guinea and New Hebrides. It probably was over about that many different years, as it is stock-and-archive footage from front-to back, including the New Hebrides segment, where the males have to leap from tall trees (and towers) with a vine attached to their ankles that stops them just short of a grand splattering on hard New Hebrides ground. An early-day version of bungee-jumping that is a macho-virility proving exercise that delights the village maidens. The art-house aspects and come-on was that it depicted strange love-rites in strange lands, even if some of them were re-enactments in color, in places of the black-and-white stock footage that had been serving in several reincarnations over the years. Highlights include "The Dance of the Fertility Tree" and "The Peek-A-Boo Betrothal." A few National Geographic-type scenes of nudity, and that's the closest it gets to even PG movies. The keywords must have been added by the DVD distributors.
- DirectorGeorge Harrison MarksStarsBridget LeonardAngela JonesPetrina ForsythThree girls on a tour of the English countryside meet up with two young women who introduce them to the joys of life in a nudist camp.
- DirectorMaurice H. ZouaryStarsFrank DeckerA quintet of ringers in a Florida nudist colony.
- DirectorArnold L. MillerStarsDavid GellHeather RussellTom BowmanA mostly faked documentary about sex work in the West End of London.
- DirectorPaolo CavaraGualtiero JacopettiFranco ProsperiStarsStefano SibaldiRossano BrazziYves KleinA "shockumentary" consisting of a collection of mostly real archive footage displaying mankind at its most depraved and perverse, displaying bizarre rites, cruel behavior and bestial violence.
- StarsVic Perrin
- DirectorPaolo CavaraGualtiero JacopettiFranco ProsperiStarsStefano SibaldiBelinda LeePeter UstinovFrom love in the streets of Paris to death on the African plain, the acclaimed MONDO CANE masters turn their unflinching eye on all the things never before known - and never before shown - about WOMEN OF THE WORLD.
- DirectorRoberto Bianchi MonteroAn exploitation music showbizz documentary.