Movies and TvShows featuring "part-staged" theme.

Faces of Death is a notorious documentary that showcases some of the most shocking and disturbing footage of death and violence ever captured on camera. It has sparked debates about the ethics of filming and distributing such content, as well as the line between documentary and fiction. The film includes scenes of executions, autopsies, cannibalism, and other gruesome acts, some of which are staged and some of which are real.

Faces of Death IV is a shocking and controversial documentary that explores the relationship between documentary and fiction. It includes both real and staged scenes of death, daring stunts, and water-skiing accidents. The film blurs the lines between reality and fiction, making it a true daredevil of a documentary.

Que Viva Mexico! is a documentary film that depicts the social differences, love, animal abuse, uprising, and other aspects of the Mexican Revolution. The film explores themes of exploitation, socialism, matriarchy, and the struggles faced by the Mexican people. It showcases various cultural elements such as bullfighting, fiestas, and religious practices. The film remains unfinished but provides a glimpse into the complexities of Mexican society.

Karel Vachek’s graduate film offers us a documentary essay which is both a light-hearted and aggressive little piece and also a parody of investigative film journalism. The Strážnice folk festival, backed by the cultural Party apparatus of the time, for years had little to commend itself to authentic folklore. In the film the event assumes the form of a bizarre stage spectacle with almost surrealistic elements that Vachek reinforces with unconventional approaches (commentary appearing as titles on screen, singing, declamations into the camera, feature etudes, the fusion of news coverage and fiction). The result is a stirring film collage depicting various characters, from crowd-pleasers, Easter egg decorators, kitsch artists and peddlers, to museologists and local residents, all of whom come up against the eccentric "identical” twin reporters Karel and Jan Saudek and a bored actress who appears as an extra. Using their special blend of irony and wit, they present us with the sad truth.

Captain Wallace Casewell Jr., chief of police of Panama City, Florida, is the star of Killers of the Sea. Appointing himself protector of all Gulf of Mexico gamefish, Capt. Casewell makes it his mission to round up illegal fishing boats and to stave off such natural predators as sharks, whales and octopi. This may well be the only American film in which a school of dolphins are depicted as "the enemy." Beyond its rather ludicrous continuity, the film offers several spectacular underwater scenes, as Casewell battles invading sea life with knife and harpoon. This 49-minute documentary was narrated by Lowell Thomas.

Newsman Chet Huntley narrates this documentary showing the rise of the African resistance movement known as the "Mau-Mau" against British rule in East Africa in the early 1950s.