An exploitation film is generally considered to be low budget and it possesses low artistic merit, as well as low morals. It attempts to gain infamy and a following by exploiting a current trend, niche genre or lurid subject matter. The exploitation film is as old as cinema itself. Some genres that have evolved over the history of the exploitation include blaxploitation, nunsploitation, Nazisploitation, women in prison etc. America has a long proud history of exploitation films from the early days of the travelling smut peddler who would show birth of baby films and drug-scare films in tents to shocked naive audiences right up to the many Grindhouses on 42nd Street in New York showing brutally violent exploitation fare such as Last House on the Left. This list looks at some of the most famous and important exploitation films in American film history. I hope that I have covered a wide range of films for your viewing pleasure.