Movies: Propaganda

After the defeat of 1940, and faced with the unexpected collapse of French power, all eyes turned to a horizon of both hope and uncertainty: the colonies. France had suddenly become an empire without a metropolis, reduced to two-thirds of its former ...

In the year 2050, society now relies on memory blocking drugs to cope with their lives while the state separates parents from their children at birth. One man, whose job is to keep adults from reuniting with their children, receives a series of messa...

Wind power... It's green... It's good... It reduces our dependency on foreign oil... That's what the people of Meredith, in upstate New York first thought when a wind developer looked to supplement this farm town's failing economy with a farm of thei...

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...

Contrasting radical mobs, anarchy, and 1960s counterculture with footage of American manufacturing and innovation, this film celebrates the concept of American exceptionalism and argues that anti-Vietnam War protesters were influenced by communism, a...

A journalist of the Qazaqstan state television channel has to make a report about the police image campaign....

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A Martian explorer discovers the secrets behind the USA's prosperity — oil and free enterprise....

A documentary about World War II, also known as the "Holy War" while Romania was an ally to Nazi Germany. The propagandistic nature of the film is evident through its overt anti-semitism and ultra-nationalist tone....

“100%” is a new political party led by Juan Palacios, which promises to change the entire current political landscape, ending corruption once and for all and favoring the people with its policies....

A horse and cart carrying two nuns is stopped by two men with fixed bayonets....

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On the eve of the war in Ukraine, a Russian journalist from pro-Kremlin TV channel brings her rebellious and Westernized teenage daughter on a journey through Putin’s Russia....

Under the sign of the swastika, it was, amongst other things, turned into a naval base, it got heavily destroyed in two waves of attack in April of 1945 by British bombers. After the war, Heligoland was made available as bombing training ground for t...

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Following fateful scientific reports, protestors pose the argument for a better future against the vested interest of industry. Small to large, individual to collective, where do I fit into this?...

Riddle of Rhodesia is an American documentary/short on Zimbabwe restored by La Cinémathèque française in 2010....

Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945) was instrumental in shaping the image of the "Third Reich". The unrestrained and cynical propaganda spread under his watch contributed to Hitler's success and helped to anchor the myth of the "Führer" in the minds of the G...

This short 1919 cartoon, produced by Ford Motor Company, shows a farmer Uncle Sam braining a huge rat branded with "I.W.W." (Industrial Workers of the World) before it can eat the grain....