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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.
- Shaping Popular Opinion
- A Different Kind of 'War Hero'
- 'Scaring The Hell Out of Americans'
Films were, and are, the perfect vehicle for shaping popular opinion, largely because seeing a movie provides such a galvanizing, shared experience. In the 1940s, "something like 90 million Americans [were] going to movies every week," said Dan O'Meara, a political science professor at the University of Quebec and the co-author of Movies, Myth and ...
Though he never saw combat himself, John Wayne was a kind of Second World War hero, starring in countless films including, They Were Expendable and Back to Bataan. "Americans can tell the story of World War II in a way that makes them feel good about themselves. British people are the same. We love hearing stories about World War II because we like...
Where previously every major war involving the United States would be followed by dramatic cuts to military spending, there was after Vietnam the ascendancy of the idea of a "national security state," one that needed to stay on high alert, says O'Meara. "And this began to inculcate within the American public this notion that: 'Oh my God, there is a...
- The Atlas Shrugged Trilogy.
- Battleship Potemkin.
- A Carol for Another Christmas.
- The Day After Tomorrow.
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May 23, 2021 · From the first world war, World War II, Vietnam War and Cold Wars to modern times, propaganda in movies is alive and well. In this video we take a look at the history of propaganda in...
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Aug 2, 2016 · Propaganda at the Movies. Learn how the Nazis used film to create an image of the “national community” and to demonize those they viewed as the enemy, such as the Jews. Last Updated: August 2, 2016.
