Crossing the Line (2006), Battleship Potemkin (1925), October (1928), The Bamboo Prison (1955), Hitler's Children (1943), Gabriel Over the White House (1933), Parade (1974), Mission to Moscow (1943) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Propaganda Film movies.
Storyline: With Americans on all sides of the issue up in arms and Congress embroiled in a knock-down-drag-out policy battle over how to move forward, CROSSING ARIZONA tells the story of how we got to where we are today. Heightened security in California and Texas has pushed illegal border-crossers into the treacherous Arizona desert in unprecedented numbers - an estimated 4,500 a day. Most are Mexican men in search of work, but increasingly the border-crossers are women and children seeking to reunite with their husbands and fathers. This influx of migrants crossing through Arizona and the attendant rising death toll have elicited complicated feelings about human rights, culture, class, labor and national security. "Crossing Arizona" examines the crisis through the eyes of those directly affected by it. Frustrated ranchers go out day after day to repair cut fences and pick up the trash that endangers their livestock and livelihoods. Humanitarian groups place water stations in the desert in an attempt to save lives. Political activists rally against anti-migrant ballot initiatives and try to counter rampant fear mongering. Farmers who depend on the illegal work force face each day with the fear that they may lose their workers to a border patrol sweep. And now there are the Minutemen, an armed citizen patrol group taking border security into their own hands. As up-to-date as the nightly news, but far more in-depth, "Crossing Arizona" is an indispensable primer on what is already the most divisive issue of this election cycle.—Crossing AZ LLC
Plot Keywords: war, korean war, history, documentary, military, usa, cold war ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Based on the historical events the movie tells the story of a riot at the battleship Potemkin. What started as a protest strike when the crew was given rotten meat for dinner ended in a riot. The sailors raised the red flag and tried to ignite the revolution in their home port Odessa.
Plot Keywords: silent film, black and white, historical drama, classic film, expressionism, navy, oppression ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In documentary style, events in Petrograd are re-enacted from the end of the monarchy in February of 1917 to the end of the provisional government and the decrees of peace and of land in November of that year. Lenin returns in April. In July, counter-revolutionaries put down a spontaneous revolt, and Lenin's arrest is ordered. By late October, the Bolsheviks are ready to strike: ten days will shake the world. While the Mensheviks vacillate, an advance guard infiltrates the palace. Anatov-Oveyenko leads the attack and signs the proclamation dissolving the provisional government.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: silent film, black and white, experimental film, avant-garde, classic film, art film, symbolism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Police Lt. Diamond is told to close his surveillance of suspected mob boss Mr. Brown because it's costing the department too much money with no results. Diamond makes one last attempt to uncover evidence against Brown by going to Brown's girlfriend, Susan Lowell.—Norman L Cook <cook@ssdgwy.mdc.com>
Plot Keywords: war, korean war, military, drama, american film, 1950s, black and white film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This propaganda piece starts in 1933. Prof. Nichols' American school in Berlin is next door to a school for the Hitler Youth. Karl, from the latter, is attracted to German-American Anna, but events lead to their separation. Six years later, near the outbreak of war in Europe, Anna is removed from Nichols' school on presumption of German citizenship. Nichols becomes obsessed with finding her, as Anna undergoes a rather lurid odyssey through the Nazi nightmare.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: war, nazi, propaganda, germany, children, education, ideology ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Newly inaugurated President Judson Hammond is content to live out the next four years exercising a hands-off approach and leaving the problems of Depression America to local authorities. But after a miraculous recovery from an auto accident, Hammond is ready to take on every social ill and neither Congress, gangsters nor the nations of the world will stop him.—Erik Gregersen <erik@astro.as.utexas.edu>
Plot Keywords: political allegory, great depression, dictatorship, american politics, social reform, idealism, corruption ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two children explore the world of a circus and see acrobats, jugglers and especially a mime (Jacques Tati).
Plot Keywords: war, history, korean war, propaganda, documentary, china, usa ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: "Mission to Moscow" was made at the behest of F.D.R. in order to garner more support for the Soviet Union during WWII. It was from the book by Joseph E. Davies, former U.S. Ambassador To Russia. The movie covers the political machinations in Moscow just before the start of the war and presents Stalin's Russia in a very favorable light. So much so, that the movie was cited years later by the House Un-American Activities Commission and was largely responsible for the screenwriter, Howard Koch being Blacklisted.—E. Barry Bruyea <siber@bigfoot.com>
Plot Keywords: war film, world war ii, political, diplomacy, usa, soviet union, documentary style ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Young people (Dave O'Brien, Dorothy Short, Lillian Miles) go from marijuana to wild piano playing, hysteria and death.
Plot Keywords: moral panic, american film, independent film, cult film, social issues, black comedy, crime drama ...
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