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A propaganda film is a film that involves some form of propaganda. Propaganda films spread and promote certain ideas that are usually religious, political, or cultural in nature. A propaganda film is made with the intent that the viewer will adopt the position promoted by the propagator and eventually take action towards making those ideas ...
- Triumph of the Will (Leni Riefenstahl, 1935) One of history’s most iconic propaganda films, Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will effectively illustrates the characteristics of both the Third Reich and National Socialism.
- Birth of a Nation (D. W. Griffith, 1915) D. W. Griffith will always be remembered in history as the father of modern filmmaking. The director’s work during the silent film era paved the way for some of the industry’s most groundbreaking techniques, including: the close-up, cross cutting, panoramic long shots, and staged battle sequences.
- Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) Many historians have argued that the ‘Golden Age’ of Russian cinema occurred between the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and the Second World War.
- In Which We Serve (Noel Coward and David Lean, 1942) When people think of propaganda and censorship, most automatically assume that they are characteristics of totalitarian regimes.
Propaganda Films was an American music video and film production company founded in 1986 by producers Steve Golin and Sigurjón Sighvatsson and directors David Fincher, Nigel Dick, Dominic Sena and Greg Gold. By 1990, the company was producing almost a third of all music videos made in the U.S.
Nov 20, 2014 · Propaganda films use straw man arguments, unassailable heroes, demonized villains, eye-catching iconography and simplistic “us vs. them” narratives to sell the message of a government, group ...
701 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Tourist. 2021 1h 39m. 5.4 (397) Rate. December 2020. Former police officer Grisha Dmitriev arrives in the Central African Republic with a small group of Russian instructors.
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Dec 15, 2021 · Gregory Wakeman looks at how a wartime propaganda film became a cinematic classic. Now celebrating its 75th anniversary, A Matter of Life and Death still finds new fans.
Apr 20, 2017 · Between 1939-45, therefore, there was little overt mention in fictional films of munitions work, the black market, evacuation, adultery, enemy aliens, Jewish refugees, axis PoWs or allied service personnel. Some of these topics have subsequently surfaced, but most remain relatively underexplored.
