Propaganda Movies

The Sailor and the Seagull was released by the U.S. Navy in 1949 with a simple goal: encouraging servicemen to re-enlist. In the film, a disgruntled...

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

Yugoslav Partisan propaganda film about the liberation of Istria at the end of the World War II.

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

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...

German film about Luftwaffe pilots. It depicts a love triangle involving two of them being overcome by their participation in battle together.

A psychedelic animated short celebrating America's bicentennial.

How the Islamic State has created a powerful propaganda factory that manipulates and twists at its convenience the subjects and icons of the Western...

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

Documentary Feature winner "Design for Death" (1947) examines Japanese culture and how it led to Japan's role in WWII.

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

A short film from the National Safety Council detailing six commonly held beliefs that can lead to death.

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

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

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...

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...

Battered, bandaged and playing croquet on crutches, wounded First World War soldiers get a break from the Western Front.

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