Movies: Propaganda

Girls in my Hometown, released in 1991, is a melodrama dealing with individualism and sacrifice. A young girl has a friend who has just come back from abroad, bringing with her foreign fashions and foreign ideas. When the solider to whom the friend w...

An anti-Communist propaganda film produced by the United States Information Agency for the indoctrination of the children separated by Operation Peter Pan into the United States. The short film follows the life of Roberto and two other young children...

1944. Three wounded officers from both sides of political conflict meet in the hospital where the staff is politically divided too....

Twelve hours in the everyday life of Joseph (a postal official) and Claire (housewife) on a dead normal Belgian day....

Propaganda movie produced by GDR television on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the erection of the Berlin Wall....

Jin Song Rim strives to turn her humble mountain hometown of Pyokgye-ri into a model socialist village....

In a totalitarian propaganda world ruled from above, a girl can be all it takes to spark off a revolution and challenge the MOTHERLAND....

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

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The portrait of the former news editor of STV, who created a "positive image of Slovakia" during the reign of Vladimír Mečiar, reveals how the post-totalitarian mechanisms of television manipulation worked....

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

Lightning sketch propaganda stirs outrage about Reims bombing, and features a British bulldog eating the German sausage....

Like the best USIA films, The Wall distills political events into an emotionally clear and compelling ideological "story". In 1962 Walter de Hoog gathered footage from U.S. and German newsreel sources and crafted this taut short film about the first ...

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 ...

The absurd and often surrealistic story of the last propaganda film of the Third Reich....

Short US propaganda cartoon....

At the beginning of the 70s, Sahia Studio produced a number of social investigations commissioned by the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party, intended to expose the so-called "social parasitism". The decision was taken after the theses ...

An educational film about power sources that’s rendered as a lyrical meditation on heat and vapor, The Four Elements is a poetic and avant-garde documentary Curtis Harrington made for the United States Information Agency....

Oscar winning postwar propaganda film in support of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Strident but poignant, focusing on children. The film surveys the Nazi/Japanese atrocities, post-war devastation and the early relief eff...

Compilation short film about the Communist Revolution and Soviet Union....