In one scene where director Gualteiro Jacopetti and his crew encounter protesters at Dar es Salaam, they are dragged out of the car. Jacopetti suffered a cut after a soldier smashed the car window. He said it was only their Italian passports that saved them from possible death.
Three well-known persons appear uncredited in this documentary. The first is Julius Nyerere, the first president of Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika). The second is Richard Gordon Turnbull, the last colonial governor of Tanzania. The third is Moise Tshombe, a Congolese politician who returned to Congo to "stop the rebellion" and died three years after this film was made.
Two new scenes were added in the English-language version of the film. One was the Africans' portrayal on the white people and another was the rich Africans with their white nurses. About 12 minutes of the original film was cut.
Despite having almost half of the original material removed, the English-language print under the title "Africa Blood and Guts" is noted as being more gruesome than the original uncut print, as any scenes of pleasantness or history have been removed, leaving only the most violent and disturbing footage untouched.
Gualtiero Jacopetti said he did not regard the English subtitled version of the film as being "the film we made" and "disowned" it. This was because the overt criticism of the British and their Empire was altered to make it more sympathetic to British tastes.