Propaganda Movies

The creation of the atomic bomb did not only unleash a destructive force—it transformed the imagination of the nation that made it, haunting...

The portrait of the former news editor of STV, who created a "positive image of Slovakia" during the reign of Vladimír Mečiar, reveals...

World War II propaganda film made to show an American audience that the Dutch were and would continue to be valuable allies in the fight against the...

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

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

During World War II, the propaganda engine of the U.S. government made a pivotal decision with unforeseeable results: they tapped John Huston to...

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

Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945) was instrumental in shaping the image of the "Third Reich". The unrestrained and cynical propaganda spread under his...

A parodic music video that re-envisions the Horatio Alger myth of the American Dream via 1950s-style cultural cliches, advertising and Reagan-era...

An educational film about power sources that’s rendered as a lyrical meditation on heat and vapor, The Four Elements is a poetic and...

The first Greek animated film was shot by the cartoonist Stamatis Polenakis (1908-1997) with the title "The Duce tells...". The seven-minute...

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...

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

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

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

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,...

A soldier is informed that enemies are headed towards his post, only moments before they arrive.

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

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...