Movies: War propaganda
- 1943
Reason and Emotion (1943)
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A World War II propaganda film about the need to remain calm and logical during wartime....
- 1941
7 Wise Dwarfs (1941)
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7 Wise Dwarfs is an educational short animated film commissioned by the National Film Board of Canada as a short film for educating the Canadian public about war bonds during World War II. The short features the seven dwarfs from Disney's Snow White ...
- 2009
A War in Hollywood (2009)
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The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) caused a great impression on the lives of most of the American artists of that era, so many movies were made in Hollywood about it. The final defeat of the Spanish Republic left an open wound in the hearts of those w...
- 1962
Red Nightmare (1962)
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A man takes his American freedoms for granted, until he wakes up one morning to find out that the United States Government has been replaced with a Communist system. The basis for this short film, narrated by Jack Webb, is the alleged Soviet re-creat...
- 1944
The Fighting Generation (1944)
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A 1944 propaganda short film produced for the U.S. Treasury Department and intended to boost war bond sales, directed by an uncredited Alfred Hitchcock and starring Jennifer Jones as a nurse's aide. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, from the Ac...
- 1974
Swastika (1974)
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Comprised of video shot during the Nazi regime, including propaganda, newsreels, broadcasts and even some of Eva Braun's colorized personal home movies, we explore the way in which the Third Reich infiltrated the lives of the German population, from ...
- 1952
One Minute to Zero (1952)
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An idealistic United Nations official learns the harrowing truth about war when she falls in love with an American officer charged with the evacuation of civilians. As hostilities escalate, the officer and his small detachment are left to hold the li...
- 1943
Spies (1943)
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The doltish but self-confident and self-congratulatory Private Snafu is in possession of a military secret during World War II. Over the course of the day, spouting rhymed couplets, he divulges the secret a little at a time to listening Axis spies. H...
- 1943
The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith (1943)
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Tom Smith, an American pilot, is shot down and captured by the Japanese. While imprisoned and awaiting execution, he recalls his life at home in the USA....
- 1917
The Slacker (1917)
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Robert Wallace, the elder son of a rich and indulgent father, marries Margaret Christy, a spirited patriot, so that he can escape the call to war. Discovering the reason for Robert's haste to get married, Margaret is appalled and resolves to bring ho...
- 1943
Gripes (1943)
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Private Snafu learns the hard way about the need for military dicipline and procedures to maintain an effective army....
- 1943
The Old Army Game (1943)
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The old shell game gets a new face as Donald stays off-base past "Taps" and has to try to sneak back in with out alerting Pete....
- 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....
- 1942
The Ducktators (1942)
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A wartime cartoon that satirizes the Axis leaders of World War II....
- 1944
A Propos of the Truce with Finland (1944)
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A rare documentary that shows how Soviet war propaganda presented the events of the Finnish front in 1941–1944. The main emphasis is on the resolution of the war. The film contains plenty of unique footage of the final stages of the Continuation War....
- 1945
Death Mills (1945)
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Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi extermination camps: the survivors, the conditions, and the evidenc...
- 1943
Rumors (1943)
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Snafu inadvertantly starts a panic on his base when he begins a mistaken rumour that the base is about to be bombed....
- 1943
Food and Magic (1943)
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A sideshow barker uses magic and visual aids to alert the public that proper food management is both a resource and a weapon that could be to America's advantage if conserved properly in winning the then current World War. Preserved by the Academy F...
- 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...
- 1992
The First Circle (1992)
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In the USSR, political prisoners who were scientists were not always sent to GULAG, but also to The First Circle (named after Dante's Inferno), a special incarceration unit near Moscow where they could work for the government....