

That's Sexploitation!
Visit website6.2/10 • 19
2013-06-25 • 2h 16m
This documentary reveals the untold story of American cinema's gloriously sordid cinematic past.
Before the advent of modern-day pornography, a vast and rapidly-paced world of smut peddling was the norm, complete with its own secret history. This documentary reveals the untold story of American cinema's gloriously sordid cinematic past. Starting in the 1920s, expert exploiteer David F. Friedman and Henenlotter navigate us through more than five salacious decades of skin flicks. It's the true story of dirty movies, traced in elegant detail from the bizarre locations where these nudie shorts were screened to the ongoing legal battles fought by their promoters. And of course there are the stories of the innovators themselves, people who often risked their own security and livelihood to make these films, believing in some way that what they were doing wasn't a 'bad' thing - and that it could rake in some dough.
- Directors
- Frank Henenlotter, David F. Friedman, Donald A. Davis
- Writters
- Frank Henenlotter, David F. Friedman, Donald A. Davis
- Editors
- Frank Henenlotter, Frank Henenlotter

That's Sexploitation!
Visit website2013-06-25 • 2h 16m
6.2/10 • 19
This documentary reveals the untold story of American cinema's gloriously sordid cinematic past.
Before the advent of modern-day pornography, a vast and rapidly-paced world of smut peddling was the norm, complete with its own secret history. This documentary reveals the untold story of American cinema's gloriously sordid cinematic past. Starting in the 1920s, expert exploiteer David F. Friedman and Henenlotter navigate us through more than five salacious decades of skin flicks. It's the true story of dirty movies, traced in elegant detail from the bizarre locations where these nudie shorts were screened to the ongoing legal battles fought by their promoters. And of course there are the stories of the innovators themselves, people who often risked their own security and livelihood to make these films, believing in some way that what they were doing wasn't a 'bad' thing - and that it could rake in some dough.
- Directors
- Frank Henenlotter, David F. Friedman, Donald A. Davis
- Writters
- Frank Henenlotter, David F. Friedman, Donald A. Davis
- Editors
- Frank Henenlotter, Frank Henenlotter
Top Billed Cast
View CreditsFrank Henenlotter
Himself
David F. Friedman
Himself
Gal Friday
Herself
Albert Cadabra
Himself
Eleanor Ames
Self (archive footage)
Virginia Bell
Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)
Mary Blair
Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)
Manny Brown
Self (archive footage)
Doreen Cannon
Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)
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