Under the Sun

So Clever Are German Spies

A horse and cart carrying two nuns is stopped by two men with fixed bayonets.

1914

The Wall

Like the best USIA films, The Wall distills political events into an emotionally clear and compelling ideological "story". In 1962 Walter de Hoog gath

1962

Land Without Bread

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, mise

1933

Railway Station

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

1980

Mein Besuch in Nordkorea

2015

The Silent Village

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

1943

Der Schwarze Kanal oder Armes Deutschland

Documentary about the life and career of Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler, presenter and creator of the infamous GDR propaganda programme 'Der Schwarze Kana

1992

North Korea; Off-Piste

Having been granted special permission to film inside one of the most secretive countries in the world, Britain's fastest snowboarder sets off to expe

2017

Hitler Lives

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

1945

Seeds of Destiny

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

1946

Beyond Utopia

A courageous pastor uses his underground network to rescue and aid North Korean families as they risk their lives to embrace freedom.

2023

A Hero's Death

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

2001

A Japanese Pipe Dream

When this propaganda film begins the narrator states that before the beginning of World War II, Japan was the only one of thirty-five nations to refus

1943

The Distant Drummer: A Movable Scene

Robert Mitchum narrates an anti drug propaganda film.

1970

The Great Hack

Data—arguably the world’s most valuable asset—is being weaponized to wage cultural and political wars. The dark world of data exploitation is uncovere

2019

The Whole World is Watching

This color educational film is about Anti-Vietnam Protestors in Washington D.C. during late April/Early May 1971. The 1971 May Day Protests were a ser

1971

Napalm

Napalm is the story of the breathtaking and brief encounter, in 1958, between a French member of the first Western European delegation officially invi

2017

North Korea: A Day in the Life

If the cityscapes and patriotic anthems of this film seem a far cry from the bleak landscape of Seoul Train, that's no accident. Dutch filmmaker Piete

2004

The Lion Has Wings

This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British

1939

Their Kingdom

The documentary Their Kingdom, co-directed in 1928 by Nutsa Gogoberidze and Mikhail Kalatozishvili (Kalatozov) for Soviet Georgia’s Cinema Trust, was

1928