Propaganda Movies

A wartime drama set in a 1944 military hospital where wounded officers and staff from opposing political camps confront ideological conflict and...

The Seediq tribe (Takasago in Japanese) of Taiwan is famous for its head-hunting rituals. A Chinese dignitary from Fujian, Wu Fong (1699-1766), tries...

A remarkable examination of the forces behind the Civil Rights Movement in 1960’s America. Drawing parallels between successful communist...

Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.

Holocaust survivors, children of survivors, and grandchildren - as well as German freedom fighters - express their shock at the Covid era's...

A documentary about World War II, also known as the "Holy War" while Romania was an ally to Nazi Germany. The propagandistic nature of the film is...

Peaceful citizens (one of whom resembles Felix the Cat) are dancing to music before their island is being invaded by a gigantic rodent that resembles...

Japanese fishery instructor Akira is attracted to beautiful Cuban young girl Martia. Though initially rejected, Akira still returns with Martia to...

World Order is a nearly two-hour documentary film by documentary film director Vladimir Soloviev examining the vast political changes in the world...

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

Danish social democratic propaganda film. During the Occupation, the young freedom fighter Søren had a good working relationship with a...

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.

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,...

The creation of the atomic bomb did not only unleash a destructive force—it transformed the imagination of the nation that made it, haunting...

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

Documentary shows the variety of tasks assumed by British women since the outbreak of war, and thanks America for sending relief bundles to the...

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

Lu Dahai and his shipbuilding team want the 10,000-ton ocean freighter "The East" to be given a sea trial. But the ship is made with domestic parts,...

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

Documentary of an Imperial Japanese Army regiment's advance from Shanghai to Wuhan in 1938. This film was shelved before submission to Home Ministry...