War Propaganda Movies

A thirty-second long stop-motion animated piece intended to encourage the audience to send matches to British troops fighting the Boer War.

When World War II broke out, John Ford, in his forties, commissioned in the Naval Reserve, was put in charge of the Field Photographic Unit by Bill...

Documentary about WWII propaganda cartoons.

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...

Tom Smith, an American pilot, is shot down and captured by the Japanese. While imprisoned and awaiting execution, he recalls his life at home in the...

World War II propaganda film from Warner Brothers.

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

Private Snafu learns the hard way about the need for military dicipline and procedures to maintain an effective army.

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...

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

A 1944 propaganda short film produced for the U.S. Treasury Department and intended to boost war bond sales, directed by an uncredited Alfred...

This film records the Japanese military's efforts to capture the Burma Road,one of the major supply lines to China, from the British beginning in...

A rare documentary that shows how Soviet war propaganda presented the events of the Finnish front in 1941–1944. The main emphasis is on the...

Nazi propaganda film about the Condor Legion, a unit of German "volunteers" who fought in the Spanish Civil War on the side of eventual dictator...

A short animated War Office commissioned health education film, showing the fate of each of the 6 jungle soldiers.

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

The entire Disney menagerie appears in a parade urging the purchase of war bonds.

Film by Aleksandr Medvekin to a metonymic Chinese friend, advocating against Mao and the Ussuri River Skirmish.

The end of the Franco-Prussian war (1870-71) saw the birth of the panoramas of war, huge circular paintings depicting scenes of war, cruelty and...

A Nazi propaganda movie from 1941 directed by Max W. Kimmich, covering a story of Irish heroism and martyrdom over two generations under the...