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.
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.
Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.
The evidence
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Cast: Stefano Sibaldi, Susan Hampshire, Dick Gregory, Gualtiero Jacopetti, Ernest Kubler
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)