Propaganda Movies

Banned in the Soviet Union for its "negative" content and never released, Kalatozov was forced to retreat from filmmaking for seven years because of t...

Soviet propaganda cartoon made shortly after the German invasion, promising victory against the fascist invaders.

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 docum...

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...

Peaceful citizens (one of whom resembles Felix the Cat) are dancing to music before their island is being invaded by a gigantic rodent that resembles...

A girl wants to go to a ball, admission one Liberty Bond, but rather than go herself, she loans the bond to a girlfriend. A soldier and a sailor find...

Events that took place in the capital of the Tajik SSR, the city of Dushanbe in 1929.

A movie-making publicity man screwball comedy about a movie producer who wants to create publicity for his latest project. He decides to have three m...

A collection of television celebrities pitch United States Savings bonds.

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

Animated WWI-era comic highlights from the innovative cartoonist George Studdy, creator of Bonzo the dog.

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...

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...

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 s...

Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.

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 evi...

Yugoslav Partisan propaganda film about the post-World War II events in Pula.

Women from the different Spanish regions dress in their traditional costumes to attend the triumphal parade celebrating the victory of Francisco Franc...

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...

German propaganda film by Carl Boese.