Propaganda Movies

An early experimental film by Toshio Matsumoto. Produced as part of the student riots in Japan at the start of the 1960s, Matsumoto uses collage,...

Short US propaganda cartoon.

Though almost forgotten today, Veit Harlan was one of Nazi Germany's most notorious filmmakers. His most perfidious film was the treacherous...

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

They came to Donbass from different countries in search of truth. And they stayed on for the sake of those whose voices were not heard. Dialogues...

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

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

Soviet propaganda cartoon from World War 2. Adolf Hitler, introduced by Charlie Chaplin's the Tramp, is ridiculed in three short skits.

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....

The absurd and often surrealistic story of the last propaganda film of the Third Reich.

Once upon a time there lived a journalist. Eager to spark interest in his boss’s newspaper, he published news of a colourful bird, more like a...

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...

Compilation short film about the Communist Revolution and Soviet Union.

The story of how newspapers were distributed during the Blitz, stressing the importance of an accurate and objective press on the home front.

In the year 2050, society now relies on memory blocking drugs to cope with their lives while the state separates parents from their children at...

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

Jin Song Rim strives to turn her humble mountain hometown of Pyokgye-ri into a model socialist village.