Dubious documentaries (enjoy but be skeptical)
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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.
- DirectorMarion GeringStarsKazuko MinePaulette GirardA modern geisha travels through Japan trying to find a job as entertainer, and ends up by finding love and a job as ama, a pearl diver.
- DirectorMino LoyStarsJack AryNico Rienzi
- DirectorMarcello MartinelliStarsThe Archie Savage DancersLa BambaCarol Carter"Documentary" focusing on women--mostly strippers--through the ages, from ancient Egypt through the French Revolution and into the Space Age. '
- DirectorGianni ProiaStarsGeorge SandersAlexanderMaria AnsaldiA documentary highlighting some of the oddest, strangest and more grotesque examples of human behavior. Included are a tour of the Grand Guignol theater in Paris, a man who sticks long needles through his body, footage of reindeer being castrated, and more footage of lesbians and strippers.
- DirectorGualtiero JacopettiFranco ProsperiStarsStefano SibaldiHenning SkaarupPeter UstinovThe official sequel to the original shockumentary, presenting new and bizarre behavior from around the world, including cruelty, graphic gore, and strange rituals.
- DirectorRomolo MarcelliniStarsLaila NovakVincent PriceStefano SibaldiAn early shockumentary, a mondo style production that spins all over the world.
- DirectorAndy WarholStarsDeVeren BookwalterWillard MaasAndy Warhol directs a single 35-minute shot of a man's face to capture his facial expressions as he receives the sexual act depicted in the title.
- DirectorFrancesco De Feo
- DirectorManuel CondeStarsDolores CarlosBeth CollinsLouise DowneAn educational documentary on efficient techniques for photographing nude models.
- DirectorPaolo CavaraStarsDon BackyAdriano CelentanoRiccardo CucciollaThis documentary looks at strange behaviors and practices in Europe, including nude skiing in Switzerland, hog-butchering in Italy, and an orgy in a graveyard.
- DirectorRoberto Bianchi Montero
- DirectorMaleno MalenottiRoberto MalenottiFolco QuiliciStarsRobert LamoureuxRobin MaughamAllen SwiftThe film documents modern slave trade through a number of Arabian and African countries, under muslim rule. The filming was conducted both in public places, and sometimes with the use of hidden cameras, for high impact scenes of nudity, sex, and violence - and a few surprises, as slaves made out of peregrins to Mecca, and slave traders paid in traveller checks.
- DirectorArnold L. MillerStarsDavid GellMacDonald HobleyBilly J. KramerExploitation film documentary on 'Swinging London' as it actually happened. Arnold Louis Miller, the director of 'Nudist Memories', interviews mods, rockers and beatniks. Wife Swapping, an overworked stripper, child birth, the killing of chickens and an interview with Billy J. Kramer also feature.
- DirectorArnold L. MillerNorman CohenStarsDavid GellCaron GardnerNoel Harrison"The world's greatest city laid bare!", roars the tagline to LONDON IN THE RAW (1964), a salacious documentary that tours the strip-clubs and underground dives of the still-swinging city.
- DirectorLuigi ScattiniStarsFranco FranchiCiccio IngrassiaJayne Mansfield"Doctor" Jayne Mansfield is in Italy to show a peer her documentary about mating customs from around the world while at the same time having to deal with two bellhops who have an idea or two about mating with Jayne.
- DirectorDoris WishmanStarsLee AbellBetty AndrewsJanice CoughlinPrivate eye Sam Dennison is relaxing at a nudist camp when he receives an assignment to find international spy Mr. X, who receives information from night club entertainers around the world. Sam travels to Vegas, Hong Kong, Thailand, Paris, Haiti, Mexico, Hawaii, Berlin and Tokyo, watching lovely women perform, and stopping back at the nudist camp (which he is attempting to buy from its beautiful owner, Martha).
- DirectorRoberto Bianchi MonteroAlbert T. ViolaStarsBoris KarloffFederico BoidoFranz DragoDocumentary showing perverse and aberrant behavior from around the globe, including such things as sex slavery, dwarf love, Asian brothels and lesbians.
- DirectorJoseph P. MawraStarsJoel HoltAudrey CampbellMarlene EckThis exploitation classic purports to expose the secrets of the 1960s lesbian underworld.
- DirectorMaurice SeymourStarsLynne O'Neill
- DirectorJohn LambStarsCharlotteCathy CrowfootKellie EvertsA profile of the nudist lifestyle.
- StarsGeorge PutnamDamian O'FlynnThis anti-porn short film shows a flood tide of filth engulfing the country in the form of newsstand obscenity.
- DirectorAntonio ScarpatiStarsJoel HoltSheila BrittLucky KargoA mondo type exploitation "documentary" about debauched practices of modern Man.
- DirectorLee FrostStarsJudy AdlerCarol BaughmanTerry BryanA "hidden camera" takes the viewer on a worldwide tour of sexual practices and rituals, including Tijuana strippers, Asian sex shows, British prostitutes, New York devil worshipers and a Mexican slave market.
- DirectorLee FrostStarsClaude EmmandBob CresseLee FrostA faux travelogue that mixes documentary and mockumentary footage. The camera looks through a one-way glass into the women's dressing room at a lingerie shop, visits a Kyoto massage parlor, goes inside the mailroom at Frederick's of Hollywood, watches an Australian who sticks nails through his skin and eats glass, checks out the art and peace scene in Los Angeles, takes in Easter week with vacationing college students on Balboa Island, observes a German audience enjoying a play about Nazi sadism, and, with the help of powerful military lenses, spies on a Lebanese white-slavery auction. A narrator adds gravitas: "To the worm in the cheese, the cheese is the universe."
- DirectorSherman PriceStarsArthur 'Weegee' FelligRay ChristianMonica DavisFamed crime photographer Arthur Fellig, nicknamed Mr. Wee Gee, stars as himself in this pseudo-documentary that begins when he falls in love with a store window dummy and tracks "her" to London, England, then meets up with a beautiful ghost in a haunted house and finally winds up in Paris, where he meets other beautiful women and ends up being chased onto the Eiffel Tower.
- DirectorErich F. BenderStarsRuth GassmannEberhard MondryAsgarda HummelSexually inexperienced and uneducated, Helga gets married. A gynecologist explains to her about sexual intercourse and birth control. Soon pregnant, she attends a course for expectant mothers, where she is given detailed information.
- DirectorVilgot SjömanStarsLena NymanVilgot SjömanBörje AhlstedtTold in a quasi-documentary style, this companion piece to I Am Curious (Blue) (1968) deals with topics such as class society, non-violent resistance, sex, relationships, and tourism to Francoist Spain.
- DirectorJohn AmeroLem AmeroStarsRoberta FindlayMichael FindlayJean ReynoldsPresented as an inquiry into the ways of lust, this film is staged as a documentary. It moves from rural prostitution (the roadhouse) to pornographers, then on to streetwalkers, male hustlers, and high-class call girls. The madam runs the bordello, she depends on the photographer to supply her with pornography; he's in the city, using his camera to lead him into depravity. The streetwalkers risk arrest from the cops and abuse from the johns. Even the call girls have a tough time: from their expenses to their lack of self-reflection. Their motto: "Live fast, die young, and make a beautiful corpse."
- A group of attractive women and some men arrives to a house party for some nude frolicking, rockabilly music and a psychedelic orgy in the dark.
- DirectorVilgot SjömanStarsMaj HulténVilgot SjömanLena NymanTold in a quasi-documentary style, this companion piece to I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967) deals with topics such as class society, religion, sex, contraceptives, and the Swedish prison Kumla.
- DirectorCharles W. Broun Jr.Joel HoltArthur KnightStarsJayne MansfieldMickey HargitayRocky Roberts and The AirdalesJayne Mansfield shares her experiences from her last trip around the world.
- DirectorWilliam RotslerStarsCandee EarleAdele ReinMichelle AngeloThis documentary on the "youth movement" of the late 1960s focuses on the hippie pot smoking/free love culture in the San Francisco Bay area. Included are discussions of the drug scene with some of the kids themselves and, naturally, several examples of the hippie philosophy of peace, love and gratuitous nudity.
- DirectorLuigi ScattiniStarsEdmund PurdomEnrico Maria SalernoJean TopartIt shows contraceptives for teen girls, lesbian nightclubs, wife swapping, porno movies, biker gangs, and Walpurgis Night celebrations. It also examines Sweden's purported drug, drinking and suicide problems.
- DirectorWilliam RotslerStarsCara PetersKathy WilliamsChristine ThomasA faux-documentary about wife swapping clubs in the L.A. area. George, a reporter interviews the vice cop. ****** The first 40 minutes is a semi-sex orgy. The guys do not take off their pants as they make out with the wives. Two of the wives have a lesbian moment. ******* Second sequence features a strip poker match involving the wives as stakes. ****** The final part is a short plot piece about a swapping guy who is filmed and blackmailed by the club's owner.
- DirectorElkan AllanStarsElkan AllanKatie AllanIan AndersonPseudo-documentary which "examines the British public's most intimate sexual relations and the modern-day permissive society".
- An educational film which documents the menstruation process and feelings in young girls.
- DirectorMarcello AvalloneStarsHeinz DracheEdmund PurdomThe documentary shows in succession a ritual of male initiation in an African tribe, a lesson in sexual education in an European country; a travelling through the rooms of a museum of erotism in Germany, the window shopping of prostitutes in Amsterdams red district, a public bath for both sexes in an unhinibited Scandinavian country, the headquarters of an association that is against keeping ones virginity, a marriage ceremony of two homosexuals, and the effects of drugs on addict people.
- DirectorFranz Josef GottliebStarsBiggi FreyerKatarina HaertelOrtrud GrossThe story begins with an emphatically serious discussion between Kolle, the sex researcher Prof. Hans Giese and the psychologist Wolfgang Hochheimer.
- DirectorFranz Josef GottliebStarsFrank NossackIngrid BackRainer BrandtThe 1st of 2 Franz Josef Gottlieb films supposedly based on the works of Dutch gynecologist Van de Velde. A precursor to the more popular Schoolgirl Report pseudo-documentaries the Gottlieb "Van de Velde" films tried to take a scientific approach to various sexual discoveries within relationships. Taking the documentary route would allow Gottlieb (and other director's of the time) to introduce more graphic and risqué subject matter that was normally not shown in Germany during this time period.
- DirectorFranz Josef GottliebStarsKarl-Heinz BauerBarbara ScottHans Hass Jr.The second of two Franz Josef Gottlieb films supposedly based on the works of Dutch gynecologist Van de Velde. A precursor to the more popular Schoolgirl Report pseudo-documentaries the Gottlieb "Van de Velde" films tried to take a scientific approach to various sexual discoveries within relationships. Taking the documentary route would allow Gottlieb (and other directors of the time) to introduce more graphic and risqué subject matter that was normally not shown in Germany during this time period.
- DirectorEberhard KronhausenPhyllis KronhausenStarsMarie AntoinetteDaniel D. HalleckMonique KraamwinkelDocumentary, dramatized at times, on human sexual behaviour. Daring for its time for its approach to some of the most delicate aspects of this taboo subject.
- DirectorTorgny WickmanStarsInge HegelerSten HegelerMaj-Brith Bergström-WalanA modern advanced film about sexual education an behaviour based on the clinical research made by famous American and Swedish doctors. The film centres around a panel; Inge and Sten Hegeler, Maj-Brith Bergstroem-Walan and Sture Cullhed, all well known, reputable experts, who have devoted their scientific studies to the various fields of sexual life. The film deals with all kinds of problems connected with the sexual relationship of people. Whilst every question is discussed by the panel., the film illustrates; the difference between male and female sexual organs and their functions, positions, and authentic coition whereby a split screen system is used enabling us to see the various reactions in different parts of the body. In connection with this as well as in other parts of the film, diagrams and animations are used to simplify the understanding of the complicated reactions which occur when a person is under sexual stimulus. The panel also discusses the role of sex in society, the question of prejudices and taboos, sex in clothes, sex in art, etc. etc.
- DirectorSergio MartinoStarsEdmund PurdomA documentary about prostitution and pornography, covering such countries as Sweden, Denmark, England, Germany and Holland.
- DirectorAllan KingStarsBilly EdwardsAntoinette EdwardsBogart EdwardsAn "actuality drama" about a real-life marriage in crisis, in which the couple attempts to identify and resolve the conflicts and resentments that have driven them to the brink of separation.
- DirectorAlfredo CastiglioniAngelo CastiglioniGuido GuerrasioStarsRiccardo CucciollaDocumentary about French Equatorial Africa, including sequences on adult circumcision rites of Bariba tribe; whipping of young Peuls; a secret asylum in the jungle; new-born tattooing in Haussa tribe; Muslim Tabaski tribe's rites; blood rites.
- DirectorLuigi ScattiniLee FrostStarsAlberto BevilacquaWill GeerAnton LaVeyA mondo style report of satanic rites from around the world. Includes devil worshipping, voodoo cults, church of satan, black magic, naked exorcism and pagan rituals.
- DirectorAllen FuntStarsJoie AddisonLaura HustonMartin MeyersFrom Candid Cameraman Allen Funt comes a hysterical feature films that tells and shows all. Witness America's response to one of the most titillating stunts of all time in this hilarious expose of sex and society.
- DirectorWerner M. LenzStarsHeidi MaienMichael MaienAngelika BaumgartFour episodes featuring the explanation of the male sex organs.
- DirectorSean S. Cunningham
- DirectorJohn LambStarsKaren BillerLizzie BundgaardRuth Dymose
- DirectorAlex de RenzyStarsValerie AbramsAlexAnya
- DirectorDieter GeisslerStarsSabine ClemensJürgen DrewsJoachim DriessePseudo-critical documentation about the development of the sex wave. Some prominent contemporaries at the time of production appear as key witnesses for the "self-liberation of love."
- DirectorMatt CimberStarsSue PetersEducational documentary on the sex life of a young couple. Among the subjects that are covered are foreplay, taking a shower together, the importance of kissing, musical accompaniment for sex, vaginal lubrication, cunnilingus, and fellatio.
- DirectorTorgny WickmanStarsInge HegelerSten HegelerMaj-Brith Bergström-WalanWhile LANGUAGE OF LOVE illustrated general sex behaviour, MORE ABOUT THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE shows minority group attitudes towards sex. As in the first film, there is an expert panel of scientist, discussing and explaining the different parts of the film. The famous Danish sexologist couple Inge and Sten Hegeler are throughout the leading characters, while the others experts change in every sector. The headings are as follows: male and female homosexuality, aesthetics and sex, handicapped and sex, drugs and sex, pornography and sex, children and sex, and sex with old people. In the new film affliction and warmth are emphasised, particularly in the chapter showing coition between persons of the same sex. Besides when a blind girl and boy examine with their hands how a naked man and woman respectively are made, a new educational method initiated by the internationally known, Swedish sex pedagogue Maj-Brith Bergstroem-Walan. The child's natural need of masturbation in an unsafe world is commented on, and old people's right to a happy sex life is demonstrated. The pornography part comprises an exposing report from a sex club in Copenhagen, where fascinating "live-Show" is emphasised, and a description of how pornographic films dealing with group sex is being produced. The drugs and sex sequence is a shocking report about all human variations and the importance of tenderness, is concluded in the final chapter, presenting a blond and very attractive young girl and her dark, curly haired fiancée during passionate and richly varied intercourse.
- DirectorTorgny WickmanStarsKim AnderzonGöran BergstrandMaj-Brith Bergström-WalanA group of experts discuss sex and relations. Different couples demonstrate and have sex in various ways under the guidance of a sex therapist.
- DirectorTorgny WickmanStarsInge HegelerSten HegelerBerit AgedalSex therapists Inge and Sten Hegel discuss some of the letters they have received from people around the world and features actors portraying a few of the acts described therein.
- DirectorHermann SchnellStarsAngelika BaumgartDagobert WalterUta BoneA female psychologist interviews four men and four women about their sexual desires and falls. They discuss their different problems in a psychological session.
- DirectorWerner M. LenzStarsWolf-Michael HoffmannMartin JenteCornelia KolleThe Kolle family, including parents and children, appears nude discussing sex education topics like masturbation, the Oedipus complex, and individual approaches without explicit details.
- DirectorAlex de RenzyStarsCandy BarrTempest StormAlex de RenzyA documentary showing clips of stag films dating from 1915 to 1970.
- DirectorGerard DamianoStarsTallie CochraneMona LizaMiky DeMaris
- DirectorRon DorfmanPeter NevardStarsTen Years AfterAlvin LeeJoe CockerThis documentary on rock 'n' roll groupies, including the infamous Plaster Casters, features performances (musical) by such bands as Ten Years After, Terry Reid, Spooky Tooth, and Cat Mother.
- DirectorDavid GrantStarsCarolyn JonesDerek Stephan TracyBritain's first-ever feature-length sex education film caused widespread tabloid controversy upon its original release, showing models performing a variety of sexual positions.
- DirectorMatt CimberStarsLindis GuinnessJudy AngelDebra ChristianDocumentary on female sexuality and the sexual habits of women. Among the subjects covered herein are fellatio, sunbathing, sodomy, bubble baths, belly dancing, masturbation, and various pelvic exercises a woman can do to increase sexual stimulation.
- DirectorAlex de RenzyFreddy HansenStarsAlex de RenzyBodil JoensenSan MateoBodil riding her stallion on the beach and along a gorgeous country lane flanked by beautiful, blooming yellow mustard fields.
- DirectorAlex de RenzyStarsBobbiChrisAlex de RenzyA bunch of young people get together in a sexual encounter group in a mansion on a hill so they can explore each other's bodies and shed their carnal inhibitions.
- DirectorRaj DeviStarsSabu EdremAnn PerryCarol KasterupPseudo documentary exploring sex practices and love making.
- DirectorRichard FranklinStarsLaura CannonSuzzan LandauFred J. LincolnThis frank and explicit scientific documentary centers on the current generation of sexually liberated young women of the early 1970's and their bold willingness to celebrate their new found carnal freedom in the most eager and unabashed manner imaginable: These ladies not only perform fellatio on men, but also engage in masturbation, shower with their male partners, and participate in threesomes.
- DirectorShinkichi TajiriStarsBodil JoensenThinks it is a mad dream but likes it
- DirectorBob ChinnStarsBob ChinnSuzanne FieldsTerri JohnsonPerhaps the boldest of the early sex documentaries, The History of Pornography is a comprehensive view of graphic depictions of sex in art and literature from ancient times onward.