Documentary
Over the course of one year, this film follows the life of an ordinary Pyongyang family whose daughter was chosen to take part in Day of the Shining Star (Kim Jong-il's birthday) celebration. While North Korean government wanted a propaganda film, the director kept on filming between the scripted scenes. The ritualized explosions of color and joy contrast sharply with pale everyday reality, which is not particularly terrible, but rather quite surreal.
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North Korea; Off-Piste
Hitler Lives
Seeds of Destiny
The History of the Civil War
Bureau 39: Kim's Cash Machine
The Wall
Victory Through Air Power
Their Kingdom
Crossing the Line
A Japanese Pipe Dream
Der Schwarze Kanal oder Armes Deutschland
The Whole World is Watching
World Order
Goodbye, Pyongyang
So Clever Are German Spies
The Great Hack
The Truth Will Out
It’s Not Always Cloudy
The Red Princess
The Distant Drummer: A Movable Scene
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North Korea; Off-Piste
IMDB 6.5 | May , 2017
Having been granted special permission to film inside one of the most secretive countries in the world, Britain's fastest snowboarder sets off to experience first hand this country we know so little about.Hitler Lives
IMDB 4.8 | Dec , 1945
This short film, produced at the end of WWII, warns that although Adolf Hitler is dead, his ideas live on.Seeds of Destiny
IMDB 6 | Jan , 1946
Oscar winning postwar propaganda film in support of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Strident but poignant, focusing on children. The film surveys the Nazi/Japanese atrocities, post-war devastation and the early relief efforts. This film was responsible for raising over $200,000,000, making it a top moneymaking film. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.The History of the Civil War
IMDB 3.3 | Jun , 1921
The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisings, the guerrilla war, the Kolchak front, the Wrangel front and the Kronstadt rebellion. Chaos and violence, devastation and death.Bureau 39: Kim's Cash Machine
IMDB 7.5 | Dec , 2020
How is it possible that North Korea, one of the poorest countries on earth finances a nuclear weapons program large enough to challenge the USA? The answer: Bureau 39, a legendary organization nestled deep inside the government apparatus. Its aim is to procure foreign exchange by any means possible to provide Kim Jong-un’s regime with money.The Wall
IMDB 7 | Nov , 1962
Like the best USIA films, The Wall distills political events into an emotionally clear and compelling ideological "story". In 1962 Walter de Hoog gathered footage from U.S. and German newsreel sources and crafted this taut short film about the first year of the Berlin Wall. Straightforward, keenly balanced narration portrays Berliners as "accepting the wall but never resigned to it". The extraordinary footage of the first escapes was propaganda enough-- His challenge was to make the politics human.Victory Through Air Power
IMDB 5.8 | Jul , 1943
This is a unique film in Disney Production's history. This film is essentially a propaganda film selling Major Alexander de Seversky's theories about the practical uses of long range strategic bombing. Using a combination of animation humorously telling about the development of air warfare, the film switches to the Major illustrating his ideas could win the war for the allies.Their Kingdom
IMDB 4 | Jul , 1928
The documentary Their Kingdom, co-directed in 1928 by Nutsa Gogoberidze and Mikhail Kalatozishvili (Kalatozov) for Soviet Georgia’s Cinema Trust, was considered lost until 2008, when there appeared a possibility that this important film – Georgia’s first documentary feature and Kalatozov’s directorial debut – had not disappeared irretrievably.Crossing the Line
IMDB 7.3 | Oct , 2006
In 1962, a U.S. soldier sent to guard the peace in South Korea deserted his unit, walked across the most heavily fortified area on earth and defected to the Cold War enemy, the communist state of North Korea. He became a star of the North Korean propaganda machine, but then disappeared from the face of the earth. Now, after 45 years, the story of James Dresnok, the last American defector in North Korea, is being told for the first time. Crossing the Line follows Dresnok as he recalls his childhood, desertion, and life in the DPRK.A Japanese Pipe Dream
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1943
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 refuse to sign an anti-narcotics treaty and alleges that this was because the country's leaders planned to use drugs as a weapon of war.Der Schwarze Kanal oder Armes Deutschland
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1992
Documentary about the life and career of Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler, presenter and creator of the infamous GDR propaganda programme 'Der Schwarze Kanal' ('The Black Channel').The Whole World is Watching
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1971
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 series of large-scale civil disobedience actions in Washington, D.C., in protest against the Vietnam War. This was made in 1971 by the Metropolitan Police Department.World Order
IMDB 0 | Dec , 2015
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IMDB 7 | Feb , 2010
Documentary focuses on Sona, the daughter of the director’s brother who moved to North Korea from Japan in the early 1970s. Through Sona, the film shows the generation that migrated from Japan to North Korea and their offspring who were born and raised in North Korea.So Clever Are German Spies
IMDB 0 | Dec , 1914
A horse and cart carrying two nuns is stopped by two men with fixed bayonets.The Great Hack
IMDB 6.9 | Jan , 2019
Data—arguably the world’s most valuable asset—is being weaponized to wage cultural and political wars. The dark world of data exploitation is uncovered through the unpredictable, personal journeys of players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data story.The Truth Will Out
IMDB 0 | Oct , 1930
Anti-Congress propaganda film made by a District Officer in India.It’s Not Always Cloudy
IMDB 0 | Oct , 1950
The Red Princess
IMDB 7 | Apr , 2022
Who is Kim Yo-jong? In a context of maximum tensions between North Korea and the United States, Pierre Haski paints an unprecedented portrait of the little sister of Kim Jong-un, whose influence in Pyongyang is growing stronger day by day.The Distant Drummer: A Movable Scene
IMDB 3.5 | Jan , 1970
Robert Mitchum narrates an anti drug propaganda film.