Propaganda Movies

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...

A love affair with collectivist ideologies has lead to ever bigger government and the welfare-warfare state. Lead by a Marxist splinter group called...

Made by the highly influential Russian cameraman Roman Karmen, this documentary vividly features Albanian life immediately after the communists came t...

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

An American businessman returns from a hunting trip to find fascists have overrun the country in this propaganda film.

The Seediq tribe (Takasago in Japanese) of Taiwan is famous for its head-hunting rituals. A chinese dignitary from Fujian, Wu Feng (1699-1766),tries...

Like the best USIA films, The Wall distills political events into an emotionally clear and compelling ideological "story". In 1962 Walter de Hoog gath...

This cartoon propaganda short by Halas & Batchelor sweetens the pill of post-war coal prices by promising jam tomorrow.

Nazi propaganda film contrasting Germany in the days before Adolf Hitler became Chancellor with the Germany of "today" and how much better it is.

A student is held up in the library while a riot rages outside. As SDS protesters head to burn the library down, he has to fend them off with his base...

From growing potatoes in Green Park, London, to transforming rabbit crates into seed boxes – just a couple of the many ingenious ways of supporting th...

Celebrity endorsement: Stanley Baldwin introduces George Arliss playing the legendary PM.

After the capture of Shanghai, Japanese soldiers make a trip to Suzhou.

The documentary tells two very different human fates in the 1920s Soviet Union. Nikolai Vavilov was a botanical genius, Trofim Lyssenko was an agronom...

Fifteen years ago, social networks were seen as a new democratic ferment that, by promoting the dissemination of information and horizontal communicat...

North Korean propaganda film about orchards that yield bigger crops after Kim Il-sung visits. The films was presented as a gift to friendly-minded cou...

The isolated, hermit kingdom of the DPRK is shrouded in secrecy, It's nearly impossible to get any reliable information from behind the bamboo curtain...

Italy’s biggest political party, the Five Star Movement, promotes direct democracy through internet voting. Five Star Movement uses a digital platform...

Traditional-style newsreel series (1923-1925)

Waco, the Big Lie is a 1993 American documentary film directed by Linda Thompson that presents video-based analysis regarding the Waco siege. The firs...