Movies: Propaganda

'Tajna dvorca IB' is a balletic musical, dialogue-less, propaganda rendition of Cominterne's Resolution used by Stalin to regain his rule over non-Soviet communist countries, especially Tito's Yugoslavia. This film can be considered as one form of Ti...

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The Front Show is a series of World War II era German military training films shown to German soldiers before being shipped off to the Eastern Front. They were directed by the veteran propagandist Fritz Hippler, best known for Der Ewige Jude....

Documentary examining the steel industry in Youngstown, Ohio during World War II. Focuses on steel production, including the smelting process, slagging and the blast furnace. Workers reflect upon their lives and the importance of their jobs. Emphasiz...

"War is Sell" dissects the strategies of war propagandists -- soldiers armed not with guns, but with words, pictures and commercial advertising techniques in their battle to win hearts and minds. How do you sell a war?...

Soviet propaganda cartoon made shortly after the German invasion, promising victory against the fascist invaders....

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An early experimental film by Toshio Matsumoto. Produced as part of the student riots in Japan at the start of the 1960s, Matsumoto uses collage, archival footage, and impassioned narration to create an expressive, visceral criticism of the US-Japan ...

Documentary about the process of building tanks in Germany during the early days of World War II....

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

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Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front....

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....

Anti-Congress propaganda film made by a District Officer in India....

Throughout time, Eastern Ukraine (such as Donbas) has been referred to as a 'Russian world', but this is indeed not the case. The history of Donbas was re-written during the Soviet era. Although the Soviet Union edited out and withheld all references...

No one knows why for certain, but from 1968 to 1973 communist Albania enjoyed a brief liberalisation in the arts. Banned books and Beatles records changed hands. Albania’s Nobel-nominated novelist Ismail Kadare wrote two of his most famed masterpiece...

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

Short animation from the early 1970s made in attempt to stop movie theater patrons from subscribing to pay TV....

Nazi Third Reich propaganda film that used architecture as a statement about "racial accomplishment," and so called "racial superiority." Hitler claimed that between 1934 and 1940, the Nazi rule of Germany had produced architectural uniqueness, and t...

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