Movies: Propaganda

An addendum to the 1993 documentary Waco, the Big Lie...

A short film from the National Safety Council detailing six commonly held beliefs that can lead to death....

Twelve hours in the everyday life of Joseph (a postal official) and Claire (housewife) on a dead normal Belgian day....

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The portrait of the former news editor of STV, who created a "positive image of Slovakia" during the reign of Vladimír Mečiar, reveals how the post-totalitarian mechanisms of television manipulation worked....

Viktoria, the figure at the top of the Siegesäule in Berlin, asks Michel to raise money for the war effort. Michel takes a trip through Germany, gathering in various famous places to raise money and connect to national history....

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, archival footage, and impassioned narration to create an expressive, visceral criticism of the US-Japan ...

Government film on the use of railroads in moving troops to support the war efort....

Bwana Kitoko (swa. 'handsome young man') is a 1955 Belgian documentary directed by André Cauvin. It shows the official visit of king Baudouin of Belgium to the Congo and Ruanda-Urundi....

A British WWII propaganda short warning citizens that Nazi sympathizers could be listening to their everyday conversations to discover important information about the war effort....

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

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 documentary Curtis Harrington made for the United States Information Agency....

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

Short documentary created as a eulogy for infamous conversion therapist Joseph Nicolosi, most known for writing the book "A Parent's Guide to Preventing Homosexuality"....

Shows methods of recognizing and evaluating propaganda and encourages adoption of a judicious, critical attitude toward it. Chuck would like to know whether the election was really "a victory for good government" as the victorious party claimed......

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. It documents how a handful of infiltrators and agitators were able to capture the country while the ma...