Propaganda Movies

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

Shows methods of recognizing and evaluating propaganda and encourages adoption of a judicious, critical attitude toward it. Chuck would like to know...

Bwana Kitoko (swa. 'handsome young man') is a 1955 Belgian documentary directed by André Cauvin. It shows the official visit of king Baudouin...

An addendum to the 1993 documentary Waco, the Big Lie

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...

World Order is a nearly two-hour documentary film by documentary film director Vladimir Soloviev examining the vast political changes in the world...

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

Traditional-style newsreel series (1923-1925)

This film focuses on the Spanish Civil War that occurred in the 1930s as a result of the attempted Communist takeover of the Republican government....

The Front Show is a series of World War II era German military training films shown to German soldiers before being shipped off to the Eastern Front....

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

A psychedelic animated short celebrating America's bicentennial.

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

“100%” is a new political party led by Juan Palacios, which promises to change the entire current political landscape, ending corruption...

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...

This propaganda film was supported by US Information Service (USIS) and presents Bangkok as a peaceful and developing city at the centre of the...

'Tajna dvorca IB' is a balletic musical, dialogue-less, propaganda rendition of Cominterne's Resolution used by Stalin to regain his rule over...

The life of students at the National Political Education Institute (Napola).

The only surviving film directed by Tazuko Sakane. A propaganda film to encourage Japanese young woman to move to Manchuria to become the wives of...

"War is Sell" dissects the strategies of war propagandists -- soldiers armed not with guns, but with words, pictures and commercial advertising...