Movies: Propaganda

Tensions rise as the world around a lesbian couple becomes an uncomfortable one to live in....

Propaganda documentary about a man, called Kulicke, who has a nightmare about being inducted into the airforce right to to front line....

The Sailor and the Seagull was released by the U.S. Navy in 1949 with a simple goal: encouraging servicemen to re-enlist. In the film, a disgruntled sailor named McGinty complains about the raw deal he believes he is receiving by serving in the Navy....

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....

Documentary about the importance of discipline, team work and rank in the military....

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...

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

In the idealism and mutation of his home town of Winnipeg, the filmmaker Matthew Rankin launches a failed campaign of absolute inter-human solidarity entirely in Esperanto, the artificial language of world peace....

A World War II propaganda film about the need to remain calm and logical during wartime....

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

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....

A propaganda documentary on the post war reconstruction of Miensk, capital of Belarus....

The story of Viktor Stratoberdha (1921-1991) mirrors many of Albania’s tragedies. Stradoberdha’s humorous, buoyant style led him to be one of the country’s most promising filmmakers. But after being denounced in 1956, he was expelled from the Kinostu...

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From growing potatoes in Green Park, London, to transforming rabbit crates into seed boxes – just a couple of the many ingenious ways of supporting the war effort which are covered in this film from the Ministry of Information....

WWII Propaganda Film...

During World War II, the propaganda engine of the U.S. government made a pivotal decision with unforeseeable results: they tapped John Huston to shoot war documentaries with an expressly patriotic spin. Few could guess the degree to which Huston's do...

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World War II propaganda film on the importance of American farming. A morale booster film stressing the abudance of American agricultural output....