War Propaganda Movies

The Secrets of Life series (1934-50) may not conform to modern expectations of nature filmmaking, inclined as it is towards giving cute fluffy...

Spanish Civil War, May, 1938. Four villages in Castellón, Benassal, Albocàsser, Ares del Maestrat and Vilar de Canes, were bombed from...

Members of three Commonwealth armies, an Aussie, a Canadian, and a New Zealander meet actor Leslie Howard who buys them a beer and makes them...

A newsreel spoof with WWII homefront gags, including rationing, air raid drills and women filling in men's jobs.

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...

Between 1933 and 1945 roughly 1200 films were made in Germany, of which 300 were banned by the Allied forces. Today, around 40 films, called...

This is the sad tale of the township of Wasington, nestled in the uttermost reaches of the northwest of the US of A. Two young Americans had planned...

World War II propaganda film on the importance of American farming. A morale booster film stressing the abudance of American agricultural output.

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...

We tour a farm and see how the various animals are preparing for the war, in a series of blackout skits.

Écran Colonial (Colonial Screen) is a documentary by Salim Aggar that sheds light on a little-known aspect of the visual history of French...

A vulture, a gorilla and a hyena (“with no small resemblances to actual dictators”) bully the woodland animals, who eventually fight...

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...

Documentary produced by Falange and edited in Berlin, in response to the international success of the Republican production "Spain 1936" (Le Chanois,...

The Sailor and the Seagull was released by the U.S. Navy in 1949 with a simple goal: encouraging servicemen to re-enlist. In the film, a disgruntled...

In an allegory for World War II, one mouse's attempt to appease the cat of the house in exchange for a regular supply of cheese puts all the mice in...

Since childhood, Luisa and Miguel have always been good friends; but several years later, as adults, when Spain faces the abyss of the Civil War...

A wartime cartoon that satirizes the Axis leaders of World War II.

The story of the resistance of the people of the Vinh Linh area of Vietnam which was heavily bombed by the United States during the Vietnamese War....

July, 1936. The terrible Spanish Civil War begins. When the streets are taken by the working class, the social revolution begins as well. The public...