Propaganda Movies

Government information film on how to get maximum wear from a man's suit, narrated by one such suit in the form of an autobiography.

Documentary Feature winner "Design for Death" (1947) examines Japanese culture and how it led to Japan's role in WWII.

Kherson, Ukraine's embattled city, has endured invasion, occupation, and liberation. On February 24, 2022, Russian tanks entered Kherson, leading to...

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,...

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

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

Traditional-style newsreel series (1923-1925)

The spread of the Soviet revolution drives the blood sucking international capitalists to desperation, so they take their wealth and fly off into...

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

A documentary about missionaries in formal Belgian Congo.

Danish social democratic propaganda film. During the Occupation, the young freedom fighter Søren had a good working relationship with a...

Propaganda movie produced by GDR television on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the erection of the Berlin Wall.

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 remarkable examination of the forces behind the Civil Rights Movement in 1960’s America. Drawing parallels between successful communist...

Throughout time, Eastern Ukraine (such as Donbas) has been referred to as a 'Russian world', but this is indeed not the case. The history of Donbas...

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

A wartime drama set in a 1944 military hospital where wounded officers and staff from opposing political camps confront ideological conflict and...

A propaganda documentary on the post war reconstruction of Miensk, capital of Belarus.

After the elections in 1929, where the Social Democrats are ahead, the work of rebuilding Danish society begins in earnest. A bold young man with...