Movies: War propaganda
- 1942
Cinema-Circus (1942)
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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....
- 1944
A Message of Importance (1944)
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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....
- 1943
Headin' for God's Country (1943)
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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...
- 1942
For the Common Defense! (1942)
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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...
- 1945
6 Little Jungle Boys (1945)
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A short animated War Office commissioned health education film, showing the fate of each of the 6 jungle soldiers....
- 1945
Two Down and One to Go (1945)
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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...
- 1966
There is a Way (1966)
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A US Air Force produced film that follows a group of F-105 pilots as they pass their hundredth mission during the Vietnam War....
- 1942
Song of Victory (1942)
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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....
- 1942
What to Do in a Gas Attack (1942)
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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)...
- 1945
Cap'n Cub (1945)
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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....
- 1934
Sankichi the Monkey: The Storm Troopers (1934)
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Short movie from 1934 about a war between monkeys and bears....
- 1941
Hoch der Lambeth Valk (1941)
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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....
- 1938
Heroic Spain (1938)
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Documentary produced by Falange and edited in Berlin, in response to the international success of the Republican production "Spain 1936" (Le Chanois, 1937)....
- 2018
Panoramas of War (2018)
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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...
- 1936
Berlin Reichshauptstadt 1936 (1936)
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Berlin in the Olympic summer 1936. A Nazi propaganda film and a portrait in colour of the early 20th century city....
- 1997
Ducktators (1997)
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Documentary about WWII propaganda cartoons....
- 1939
In Battle Against the Enemy of the World: German Volunteers in Spain (1939)
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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....
- 1914
Matches: An Appeal (1914)
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A thirty-second long stop-motion animated piece intended to encourage the audience to send matches to British troops fighting the Boer War....
- 1987
Prisoners of Propaganda (1987)
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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...
- 1946
L'Algérie au travail (1946)
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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...