Propaganda Movies

World War II propaganda film from Warner Brothers.

In front of television crews and thousands of spectators, Spaceship-1—commanded by Commodore Hardt, inventor of the powerful rocket fuel "Neotan-X"—bl...

A holiday of sorts for Stockport army reserves, fitting high-jinks between drills over two weeks of summer training in South Wales.

Oscar winning postwar propaganda film in support of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Strident but poignant, focusing on ch...

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

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

Traditional-style newsreel series (1923-1925)

A girl wants to go to a ball, admission one Liberty Bond, but rather than go herself, she loans the bond to a girlfriend. A soldier and a sailor find...

Documentary about the process of building tanks in Germany during the early days of World War II.

A psychedelic animated short celebrating America's bicentennial.

Women from the different Spanish regions dress in their traditional costumes to attend the triumphal parade celebrating the victory of Francisco Franc...

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

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

Though almost forgotten today, Veit Harlan was one of Nazi Germany's most notorious filmmakers. His most perfidious film was the treacherous anti-Semi...

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

Documentary examining the steel industry in Youngstown, Ohio during World War II. Focuses on steel production, including the smelting process, slaggin...

Lightning sketch propaganda stirs outrage about Reims bombing, and features a British bulldog eating the German sausage.

A girl is sent back in time to the Soviet invasion of the Kuril Islands

In the idealism and mutation of his home town of Winnipeg, the filmmaker Matthew Rankin launches a failed campaign of absolute inter-human solidarity...

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