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Goodbye Uncle Tom

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

Horror, Crime, Drama

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What kind of time-travel story is this?

Time travel is an important premise, with limited sustained exploration.

Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Unknown.

Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)

Modern filmmakers visiting the antebellum South provide the documentary conceit. Historical encounters dominate, while the act and mechanics of crossing time receive comparatively little exploration.

The film's narrative premise places contemporary documentary filmmakers in the pre-Civil War South; the transport cause is unspecified.

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An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.

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Scale, legacy & time

The scores

Titan23.6

Weighted archive score

Time-travel significance5/10

high confidence

Quality consensus6.3/10

Aggregate source ratings

How Titan works

Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.

Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]

This film: 59.11 base × 40.0% weighting.

Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.

The evidence

Research & sources

Research notes may reveal plot details.

These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.

Cast: Stefano Sibaldi, Susan Hampshire, Dick Gregory, Gualtiero Jacopetti, Ernest Kubler

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Releases & formats

6 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.

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4K UHD

Goodbye Uncle Tom 4K (1971)

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Release date
Apr 23, 2024
Studio
Blue Underground
Resolution
Native 4K (2160p)
Region / playback
4K Blu-ray: Region free | 2K Blu-ray: Region free
Discs
4K Ultra HD | Blu-ray Disc | Four-disc set (2 BD-100, 1 BD-50, 1 CD)
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Blu-ray

Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)

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Release date
Apr 23, 2024
Studio
Blue Underground
Resolution
1080p
Region / playback
2K Blu-ray: Region A, B
Discs
Blu-ray Disc | Four-disc set (3 BD, 1 CD)
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Digital

Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)

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Edition specifications have not been cataloged yet.

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DVD

Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)

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Release date
Jun 24, 2008
Studio
Blue Underground
Resolution
480i (NTSC)
Region / playback
Region 1
Discs
DVD | Single disc (1 DVD)
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DVD

Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)

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Release date
Unknown
Studio
Blue Underground
Resolution
1080p
Region / playback
Region 1
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DVD

Midnight Movies Vol 12: Shockumentary Triple Feature (1966-1971)

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Release date
Feb 26, 2013
Studio
Blue Underground
Resolution
480i (NTSC)
Region / playback
Region 1
Discs
DVD | Single disc (1 DVD)
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