Goodbye Uncle Tom

Goodbye Uncle Tom

300 years of hate explode today!

Directed by Franco Prosperi, Gualtiero Jacopetti

Produced by Euro International Films

1971123 min6.7 / 10

A brutal, unflinching time-travel descent into the horrors of American slavery, constructed as a graphic documentary of systematic cruelty and dehumanization.

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

Questions people ask

  • Is Goodbye Uncle Tom easy watching? No. Less comforting than 100% of films.

  • Is Goodbye Uncle Tom violent? Yes, very. More violent than 99% of films.

  • Does Goodbye Uncle Tom end with hope? No. Less hopeful than 98% of films.

  • Is Goodbye Uncle Tom sad? Yes, very. More sad than 96% of films.

  • Is Goodbye Uncle Tom scary? Yes. More frightening than 76% of films.

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78/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Distinctly its own thing.

Rarity95

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise87

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love55

How much audiences actually like it

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