Propaganda Movies

Short documentary about 50 years of history of Czechoslovakia, with archive images.

The story of Viktor Stratoberdha (1921-1991) mirrors many of Albania’s tragedies. Stradoberdha’s humorous, buoyant style led him to be...

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

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

Uwe Polzin, a highly talented biologist publicly stands the defence of his doctorate and this crucial day prompts him to look back on his life so...

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,...

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...

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.

After a hard day at work, Mr. Prokouk decides to invent a machine to ease his labor. But inventing is work too, and Mr. Prokouk spends more time...

German propaganda film by Carl Boese.

An addendum to the 1993 documentary Waco, the Big Lie

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...

Short film that emphasizes the importance of keeping a tidy home when facing an atomic bomb.

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

WWII Propaganda Film

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

A combination of Lightning Sketches along with stop-motion animation illustrate England's reactions and responses in World War One.

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...

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

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,...