Propaganda Movies

Battered, bandaged and playing croquet on crutches, wounded First World War soldiers get a break from the Western Front.

Events that took place in the capital of the Tajik SSR, the city of Dushanbe in 1929.

This program investigates the ways various art forms are used to sway minds and to argue political causes. Examples include Napoleon and Hitler;...

Before the Korean War (1950-1953), a daughter of a Russian soldier stationed at Heungnam falls in love with a young Korean anti-Communist. Their love...

Donald is manning a listening post and falls asleep; he blows trumpet calls in his sleep and wakes his nephews. For their revenge, they send up a...

Director Frederick Ermler’s last silent feature and the last of four collaborations with actor Fiodor Nikitin. Nikitin plays an officer who...

The entire Disney menagerie appears in a parade urging the purchase of war bonds.

This cartoon propaganda short by Halas & Batchelor sweetens the pill of post-war coal prices by promising jam tomorrow.

About the first years of the formation of Soviet power, about the life and work of Feliks Dzerzhinsky in 1918-1925. The film covers the most...

Propaganda documentary about the fall of Nanking. Considered for a long time as a lost film, it was discovered in Beijing, China, in the year 1995.

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

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

A doctor persuades a group of boys to be vaccinated by explaining how it will protect them against disease. Animated sequences depict the body...

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

In December 1967 a Cuban film crew led by Santiago Alvarez, the veteran polemicist, traveled to Hanoi. They shot the footage which constitutes this...

Contrasting radical mobs, anarchy, and 1960s counterculture with footage of American manufacturing and innovation, this film celebrates the concept...

Private Duck is a camouflage painter. He paints a giant cannon with some very gaudy colors, until Sergeant Pete explains that the point is to make it...

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....