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- 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.
- The Atlas Shrugged Trilogy.
- Battleship Potemkin.
- A Carol for Another Christmas.
- The Day After Tomorrow.
Clash of Loyalties. 1983 2h 50m. 7.2 (425) Rate. This movie is about the 1920 revolution in Iraq against the English occupation. Director Mohamed Shukri Jameel Stars Oliver Reed Ghazi Al-Takritee James Bolam. 5. Al-ayyam al-tawila. 1980 2h 30m.
- The Green Berets
- Alexander Nevsky
- Sergeant York
- Target For Tonight
- Red Dawn
- The Bond
- Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
- Triumph of The Will
- Why We Fight
- Life Goes on — The Propaganda Epic Nobody Saw
Public opinion was already turning against the war in Vietnam when John Wayne’s The Green Berets invaded movie houses. Yet the star-spangled, patriotic war flick did little to win the hearts and minds of ordinary Americans. In it, “the Duke” plays Mike Kirby, a Special Forces colonel who sets out to show a jaded war correspondent that the United St...
Unlike The Green Berets, it wasn’t the dangers of communism that celebrated Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein was warning of in his propaganda classic Alexander Nevsky — it was the threat of German aggression. Produced amid growing tension between Moscow and Berlin, the movie depicts the struggles of a 13th Century prince of Novgorod as he defend...
America’s most decorated Great War Doughboy, Alvin York, was the subject of this summer-of-1941 box office smash. Yet the patriotic tale of the Medal of Honor-winning Tennessee backwoodsman who famously bagged 132 German prisoners in the Argonne Forest took on a new currency after Japan’s sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Accordingly, Sergeant York was...
Even under ideal conditions, Allied bomber crews were lucky if they could place their payloads within three miles of a target. In fact, only about 7 percent of all bombs dropped in World War Two landed inside a thousand feet of the bull’s eye. But you’d never know it by watching the 1941 British docu-drama Target for Tonight. The film, which was p...
When Soviet and Cuban troops invade a small-town in middle America, jocks and preps from the local high school gather weapons and launch a guerrilla war against the commie conquerors. Such is the premise of the Brat Pack Cold War action flick Red Dawn. Starring Charlie Sheen, Patrick Swayze and C. Thomas Howell, this ridiculous teenage shoot-‘em-up...
More than 20 years before his famous send-up of Hitler in The Great Dictator (1940), Charlie Chaplin was socking it to Kaiser Wilhelm II in his own self-financed 1918 movie for the Liberty Loan Committee entitled The Bond. The 11-minute comedy, which features the Little Tramp punching out the German emperor, was produced to get Americans to open th...
The Doolittle Raid must have seemed like ancient history in November 1944 when MGM released Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. After all, so much had happened in the Pacific since the legendary April 18, 1942 air strike on the Japanese capital: Midway, Guadalcanal, Saipan and the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot, among others. Yet the rousing patriotic drama ab...
Although it predated the war by four years,Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens) is widely regarded as the standard-bearer of Nazi-era propaganda films. The 104-minute documentary focuses on a speech Adolf Hitler delivers to a crowd of 700,000 party faithful at a massive 1934 rally in Nuremburg. The handiwork of German auteur Leni Riefenstahl, ...
Frank Capra’s Why We Fight was a series of seven hour-long documentaries released between 1942 and 1945 that explained to the general public the origins of the Second World War and America’s place in it. Not surprisingly, the movies framed the conflict using an overly simplistic ‘good versus evil’ narrative that frequently glossed over some rather ...
LITTLE EXPENSE WAS spared on Joseph Goebbels’ feel-good epic about plucky Berliners standing firm in the face of Allied bombing. Described as Third Reich’s answer to Mrs. Miniver, the regime pulled in the hottest stars of Nazi Germany to appear in the movie. Unable to shoot on location in the capital because of the growing mountains of rubble, film...
Propaganda films are popular mediums of propaganda due to their ability to easily reach a large audience in a short amount of time. They are also able to come in a variety of film types such as documentary, non-fiction, and newsreel, making it even easier to provide subjective content that may be deliberately misleading.
Aug 2, 2016 · Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens) Triumph of the Will is a Nazi propaganda film made by Leni Riefenstahl. During World War I, the British discovered the power of films to shape public opinion (see reading, Western Front at the Cinema in Chapter 3). The Soviets made a similar discovery in the 1920s. Joseph Goebbels learned from both.
Feb 22, 2017 · Films like "Two in a Big City" (1942) were intended to distract people from the war Image: Farbfilm Verleih. Entertainment films also played a big role. How did the Nazis exploit this?...
