Movies: War propaganda

  • 1942
    Cinema-Circus

    Cinema-Circus (1942)

    Cinema-Circus

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

    Cinema-Circus
  • 1944
    A Message of Importance

    A Message of Importance (1944)

    A Message of Importance

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    In the final push of World War II, with Germany and Japan on the ropes, Eddie Bracken urges the American people to buy more war bonds....

    A Message of Importance
  • 1943
    Headin' for God's Country

    Headin' for God's Country (1943)

    Headin' for God's Country

    01943HD

    In this anti-Japanese WW II propaganda film, Japanese invaders attempt to raid Alaska and are totally obliterated. The trouble begins when a stranger visits a small town and tells them that the U.S. is going to be taken over by a powerful country. Th...

    Headin' for God's Country
  • 1942
    For the Common Defense!

    For the Common Defense! (1942)

    For the Common Defense!

    4.71942HD

    This Crime Does Not Pay short shows how cooperation among all the nations of the Americas helps the war effort. In this case, a US government agent travels to Chile and Colombia. He works with local authorities to try to thwart an Axis plan to ship s...

    For the Common Defense!
  • 1945
    6 Little Jungle Boys

    6 Little Jungle Boys (1945)

    6 Little Jungle Boys

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    A short animated War Office commissioned health education film, showing the fate of each of the 6 jungle soldiers....

    6 Little Jungle Boys
  • 1945
    Two Down and One to Go

    Two Down and One to Go (1945)

    Two Down and One to Go

    6.21945HD

    Documentary short film produced by the U.S. Army, intended to enlighten the American public on the final thrust of the Allied war effort in Europe and on the plans for the return home of American forces. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008...

    Two Down and One to Go
  • 1966
    There is a Way

    There is a Way (1966)

    There is a Way

    01966HD

    A US Air Force produced film that follows a group of F-105 pilots as they pass their hundredth mission during the Vietnam War....

    There is a Way
  • 1942
    Song of Victory

    Song of Victory (1942)

    Song of Victory

    61942HD

    A vulture, a gorilla and a hyena (“with no small resemblances to actual dictators”) bully the woodland animals, who eventually fight back, using the letter V as their victory symbol....

    Song of Victory
  • 1942
    What to Do in a Gas Attack

    What to Do in a Gas Attack (1942)

    What to Do in a Gas Attack

    01942HD

    Explains what war gas is, how it is used by the enemy, and how simple household items, such as bicarbonate of soda and bleaching solution, may be used to prevent casualties. (archive.org)...

    What to Do in a Gas Attack
  • 1945
    Cap'n Cub

    Cap'n Cub (1945)

    Cap'n Cub

    01945HD

    A small bear cub, named Cap'n Cub, is the head of a troupe of like-minded animals fighting the Japanese in the Pacific Theatre during World War II....

    Cap'n Cub
  • 1934
    Sankichi the Monkey: The Storm Troopers

    Sankichi the Monkey: The Storm Troopers (1934)

    Sankichi the Monkey: The Storm Troopers

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    Short movie from 1934 about a war between monkeys and bears....

    Sankichi the Monkey: The Storm Troopers
  • 1941
    Hoch der Lambeth Valk

    Hoch der Lambeth Valk (1941)

    Hoch der Lambeth Valk

    7.31941HD

    A 1941 Ministry of Information propaganda film set to the tune of The Lambeth Walk, a popular song from the musical Me and My Girl....

    Hoch der Lambeth Valk
  • 1938
    Heroic Spain

    Heroic Spain (1938)

    Heroic Spain

    51938HD

    Documentary produced by Falange and edited in Berlin, in response to the international success of the Republican production "Spain 1936" (Le Chanois, 1937)....

    Heroic Spain
  • 2018
    Panoramas of War

    Panoramas of War (2018)

    Panoramas of War

    6.32018HD

    The end of the Franco-Prussian war (1870-71) saw the birth of the panoramas of war, huge circular paintings depicting scenes of war, cruelty and desolation that were contemplated by thousands of spectators, a kind of inmersive static newsreels, a mas...

    Panoramas of War
  • 1936
    Berlin Reichshauptstadt 1936

    Berlin Reichshauptstadt 1936 (1936)

    Berlin Reichshauptstadt 1936

    01936HD

    Berlin in the Olympic summer 1936. A Nazi propaganda film and a portrait in colour of the early 20th century city....

    Berlin Reichshauptstadt 1936
  • 1997
    Ducktators

    Ducktators (1997)

    Ducktators

    01997HD

    Documentary about WWII propaganda cartoons....

    Ducktators
  • 1939
    In Battle Against the Enemy of the World: German Volunteers in Spain

    In Battle Against the Enemy of the World: German Volunteers in Spain (1939)

    In Battle Against the Enemy of the World: German Volunteers in Spain

    01939HD

    Nazi propaganda film about the Condor Legion, a unit of German "volunteers" who fought in the Spanish Civil War on the side of eventual dictator Francisco Franco against the elected government of Spain....

    In Battle Against the Enemy of the World: German Volunteers in Spain
  • 1914
    Matches: An Appeal

    Matches: An Appeal (1914)

    Matches: An Appeal

    4.01914HD

    A thirty-second long stop-motion animated piece intended to encourage the audience to send matches to British troops fighting the Boer War....

    Matches: An Appeal
  • 1987
    Prisoners of Propaganda

    Prisoners of Propaganda (1987)

    Prisoners of Propaganda

    61987HD

    In 1943, the Imperial Japanese Secret Service made a film called Calling Australia! to show the "exemplary conditions" under which prisoners of war were kept, and to "soften up" the Australian public for the anticipated occupation of their country by...

    Prisoners of Propaganda
  • 1946
    L'Algérie au travail

    L'Algérie au travail (1946)

    L'Algérie au travail

    01946HD

    This film is devoted to Algeria's vast equipment plan which has fostered the development of the ports of Algiers and Oran. The inauguration of new aerodromes, roads, the construction of dams and power stations, the development of coal production, the...

    L'Algérie au travail