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Produced by the Fox Movietone News arm of Fox Film Corporation and based on the book by Lawrence Stallings, this expanded newsreel, using...

The newsreel series Jornal Português (1938-1951) was produced for the Secretariat of National Propaganda (SPN/SNI) by the "Portuguese Newsreel...

It was the biggest escape in the history of the Berlin Wall: in one historic night of October 1964, 57 East-Berliners try their luck through a tunnel...

Events that took place in the capital of the Tajik SSR, the city of Dushanbe in 1929.

On September 11, 1929, the first Termez-Dushanbe train arrived at the newly built station in the Tajik capital. However, not only the train was the...

After the capture of Shanghai, Japanese soldiers make a trip to Suzhou.

Bwana Kitoko (swa. 'handsome young man') is a 1955 Belgian documentary directed by André Cauvin. It shows the official visit of king Baudouin...

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in...

Kieslowski’s later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw after the rush hour.

How can the masses be controlled? Apparently, the American publicist Edward L. Bernays (1891-1995), a pioneer in the field of propaganda and public...

A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to the great socialist October Revolution and the...

Traditional-style newsreel series (1923-1925)

Under the sign of the swastika, it was, amongst other things, turned into a naval base, it got heavily destroyed in two waves of attack in April of...

This short film, produced at the end of WWII, warns that although Adolf Hitler is dead, his ideas live on.

Oscar winning postwar propaganda film in support of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Strident but poignant, focusing on...

The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.

Marilyn wasn't born Marilyn, she became it. This unique portrait reveals her in her own words: a lucid and determined woman, shifting image of the...

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.