Propaganda Movies

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

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

Propagandistic documentary aiming to demonstrate how vigorous and prosperous the provinces of Tacna and Arica were at that time, despite being in...

East German documentary/propaganda film about Berlin Wall border guards

No one knows why for certain, but from 1968 to 1973 communist Albania enjoyed a brief liberalisation in the arts. Banned books and Beatles records...

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

Return to Guam is a 1944 short propaganda film produced by the US Navy about the taking and recapture of the island of Guam. The film starts when a...

On September 11, 1929, the first Termez-Dushanbe train arrived at the newly built station in the Tajik capital. However, not only the train was the...

Italy’s biggest political party, the Five Star Movement, promotes direct democracy through internet voting. Five Star Movement uses a digital...

During World War II, the propaganda engine of the U.S. government made a pivotal decision with unforeseeable results: they tapped John Huston to...

Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945) was instrumental in shaping the image of the "Third Reich". The unrestrained and cynical propaganda spread under his...

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

A horse and cart carrying two nuns is stopped by two men with fixed bayonets.

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

A soldier is informed that enemies are headed towards his post, only moments before they arrive.

Made by the highly influential Russian cameraman Roman Karmen, this documentary vividly features Albanian life immediately after the communists came...

Short cartoon made for US military soldiers during World War Two.

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

From growing potatoes in Green Park, London, to transforming rabbit crates into seed boxes – just a couple of the many ingenious ways of...