Propaganda Movies

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

In the near future: Europe is in chaos. Right-wing extremists have taken power in many countries. The democratic state that once was Germany has...

The story of Donald Trump's election told entirely through Russian propaganda. By turns horrifying and hilarious, the film is a satirical portrait of...

Compiled from authentic wartime footage shot by official AIF photographers, this film documents Australia's role in the First World War. The...

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...

The Front Show is a series of World War II era German military training films shown to German soldiers before being shipped off to the Eastern Front....

When Dr. Schmith's proposal for international research on infant mortality is rejected, he decides to leave East Germany and strikes a deal with an...

An industrialist's son becomes part of the communist party.

Before the Korean War (1950-1953), a daughter of a Russian soldier stationed at Heungnam falls in love with a young Korean anti-Communist. Their love...

Short documentary about 50 years of history of Czechoslovakia, with archive images.

A documentary illustrating the mountain sports activities of the university students of the GUF (Gruppi universitari fascisti) in Val Gardena,...

A documentary about missionaries in formal Belgian Congo.

Boomerang is a short film set in a post-collapse Berlin 50 years into the future: Raven finds an old diary from a 2020s pro Palestine activist and...

'Tajna dvorca IB' is a balletic musical, dialogue-less, propaganda rendition of Cominterne's Resolution used by Stalin to regain his rule over...

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

Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.

The story of how newspapers were distributed during the Blitz, stressing the importance of an accurate and objective press on the home front.

The film is a kind of docu-fiction about a boy who enrolls in a battalion of young mountain troops. The film follows his daily life in the military...

In an alternate reality where the decline of nations has given rise to corporatist regimes, any trace of culture or tradition is suppressed by these...

A combination of Lightning Sketches along with stop-motion animation illustrate England's reactions and responses in World War One.