Movies: Propaganda

Documentary short film produced by the U.S. Army, intended to enlighten the American public on the final thrust of the Allied war effort in Europe and on the plans for the return home of American forces. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008...

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Yugoslav Partisan propaganda film about the liberation of Istria at the end of the World War II....

Lu Dahai and his shipbuilding team want the 10,000-ton ocean freighter "The East" to be given a sea trial. But the ship is made with domestic parts, and Chen Zongjie, a leader of the Party Committee of the Bureau of Foreign Transport, believes that ...

Animated WWI-era comic highlights from the innovative cartoonist George Studdy, creator of Bonzo the dog....

First World War animated propaganda short, extolling Britain's naval history and mocking the German navy....

Don’t judge a book by its cover but do judge a political party by its garage....

The only surviving film directed by Tazuko Sakane. A propaganda film to encourage Japanese young woman to move to Manchuria to become the wives of Japanese emigrants, so-called brides of the Continent. Villagers played roles different from their actu...

This program investigates the ways various art forms are used to sway minds and to argue political causes. Examples include Napoleon and Hitler; artist such as Daumier, Hogarth and Shann; writers Dickens, Swift and Orwell; and pop artists who mock po...

"Our Cities Must Fight" is a civil defense film that was produced for the U.S. government to illustrate the importance of not abandoning urban centers during an atomic bombing. The film cautions that doing so would make it easier for the invading "en...

Social democracy propaganda film about future dreams for Denmark in 1960. Although Denmark is free again, the former opponent and worker, Svend, is disillusioned: "It is all something soft". The dream of the future is incarnated by a young woman, Kar...

The story of how newspapers were distributed during the Blitz, stressing the importance of an accurate and objective press on the home front....

The film is dedicated to the achievements of the Ukrainian SSR for the eleventh anniversary of the October Revolution....

A short film from the National Safety Council detailing six commonly held beliefs that can lead to death....

The story of Istituto Luce and it's newsreels, full of visual records of the social and political history of Italy under Mussolini's leadership....

Documentary shows the variety of tasks assumed by British women since the outbreak of war, and thanks America for sending relief bundles to the victims of the London Blitz. Made for an American audience, the film is edited, narrated and written by th...

On September 11, 1929, the first Termez-Dushanbe train arrived at the newly built station in the Tajik capital. However, not only the train was the first that day - the shots of the arrival of the locomotive, as well as people waiting for it with exc...

The Seediq tribe (Takasago in Japanese) of Taiwan is famous for its head-hunting rituals. A Chinese dignitary from Fujian, Wu Fong (1699-1766), tries to persuade the tribe to cease the rituals....

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