Propaganda Movies

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

Promotional short extolling the virtues of the American government's wartime Economic Stabilization Plan.

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

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,...

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

Don’t judge a book by its cover but do judge a political party by its garage.

How the Islamic State has created a powerful propaganda factory that manipulates and twists at its convenience the subjects and icons of the Western...

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

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

Short US propaganda cartoon.

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

The story of Istituto Luce and it's newsreels, full of visual records of the social and political history of Italy under Mussolini's leadership.

Anti-Congress propaganda film made by a District Officer in India.

This anti-Communism film uses animation to tell the story of two brothers, one of whom receives training for hemispheric subversion in Cuba and...

An addendum to the 1993 documentary Waco, the Big Lie

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

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

The first Soviet anti-religious film.