Propaganda Movies

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,...

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

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

I just broke up... bloody society.

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

A student whose parents died in the Gujarat pogrom receives an assignment on the same topic at his university. During his research, he meets everyone...

A horse and cart carrying two nuns is stopped by two men with fixed bayonets.

Compilation short film about the Communist Revolution and Soviet Union.

A historical epic that chronicles the Guineans’ long struggle against French colonialism and for their country’s independence.

Fifteen years ago, social networks were seen as a new democratic ferment that, by promoting the dissemination of information and horizontal...

After the elections in 1929, where the Social Democrats are ahead, the work of rebuilding Danish society begins in earnest. A bold young man with...

No one knows why for certain, but from 1968 to 1973 communist Albania enjoyed a brief liberalisation in the arts. Banned books and Beatles records...

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

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,...

Short cartoon made for US military soldiers during World War Two.

Kherson, Ukraine's embattled city, has endured invasion, occupation, and liberation. On February 24, 2022, Russian tanks entered Kherson, leading to...

Found footage: California in the 1950's and 60's. A young Indian couple enjoys their personal American dream come true in their home somewhere in the...

A presentation of the hard labour of countrymen in industrial production to strengthen the USSR economy and turning their country into a world power.

A shocking political exposé, and an intimate ethnographic portrait of Pacific Islanders struggling for survival, dignity, and justice after...

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