Propaganda Movies

The documentary tells two very different human fates in the 1920s Soviet Union. Nikolai Vavilov was a botanical genius, Trofim Lyssenko was an...

A collection of television celebrities pitch United States Savings bonds.

The idyllic life of a young Cajun boy and his pet raccoon is disrupted when the tranquility of the bayou is broken by an oil well drilling near his...

The life of students at the National Political Education Institute (Napola).

The future. The corrupt regime broadcasts the illusion of a beautiful city to the chip in your head, when in fact the city is in ruins. The rebels...

Based on the book by Major Alexander de Seversky's about his theories of the practical uses of long range strategic bombing. Using a combination of...

Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is similarly used in the United States. The film was made...

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...

This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional...

Boomerang is a short film set in a post-collapse Berlin 50 years into the future: Raven finds an old diary from a 2020s pro Palestine activist and...

An insider's look at the fake news phenomenon and the consequences of media misinformation. Interviews from those who have been accused of spreading...

This short film in support of the war effort focuses on the training and missions of Army Air Corps Captain Hewitt T. Wheless just after the U.S....

Spin doctors spread misinformation and confusion among American citizens to delay progress on such important issues as global climate change.

Like the best USIA films, The Wall distills political events into an emotionally clear and compelling ideological "story". In 1962 Walter de Hoog...

This film was made by the U.S. government during World War II to show its young servicemen the results of "fooling around" with "loose women"...

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

Young Alice Mason wishes to start a family, but because her own has been deemed "defective" by the state health authorities—her parents are...

On a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who disdain outsiders. The beautiful Maclovia and the...

Earthlings chafe at the peace established by a benevolent alien race and set about to rebel.

Banned in the Soviet Union for its "negative" content and never released, Kalatozov was forced to retreat from filmmaking for seven years because of...