A soldier in Zanzibar raises his rifle over his head before smashing it down on to the car windscreen. Shards of glass splatter film-maker Gualtiero Jacopetti’s face, slicing a vein behind his ear. As ...

Directed by Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi, this 1965 Italian feature is a sequel to the cult documentary Mondo Cane. Among its subjects are Mexico’s Day of the Dead, slave markets in the ...

A second edition of Mark Goodall’s book on mondo films - Sweet and Savage: the world through the shockumentary film lens will be published by Headpress in 2017. BBC Four is about to air The History ...

Filmmaker Gualtiero Jacopetti — the man behind documentary “Mondo Cane” and its sequels, cult classics that collected examples of the creepy and bizarre from around the world — died Wednesday in Rome.

In the early 1960s, an Italian documentary called "Mondo Cane (A Dog's World)" and its sequel, "Mondo Cane 2," became the second-most successful documentaries ever released theatrically, after ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Gualtiero Jacopetti (born 4 September 1919) is an Italian director of documentary films. He was born in Barga, in northern Tuscany. With Paolo Cavara and Franco ...