Propaganda film

A propaganda film is a film, usually a documentary, produced for the express purpose of convincing the viewer of a certain political point.

• Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media
• [Reefer Madness]?
• Triumph of the Will

For a hilarious and horrifying subversion of the United States military's 1960s propaganda regarding the safety of radioactive materials, see [The Atomic Cafe]?.

Noted propagandists:

• Leni Riefenstahl

See also the 10-volume CD-ROM collection [Our Secret Century]? for its discussion of propaganda and the examples it includes from the United States.

See also propaganda.

However, the distinction of what is propaganda need not be limited to non-fiction film. Many of the dramatic war films in the early 1940s in the United States were designed to create consensus at the expense of "the enemy." In fact, one of the genre conventions of the war film that developed from the period was the notion that a cross-section of the United States which comes together as a crack unit for the good of the country.