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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 250 films · Page 3.
Secret Agent, Thriller, propaganda film, spy film
John Barrington, a talented but eccentric inventor, is working at his Scottish country home on a new bombsight for the RAF. His scatter-brained wife takes in child evacuees from London to be accommodated in a nearby cottage they own. But s…
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LGBTQ-related film, drama film, educational film, propaganda film, social guidance film
The film start being narrated by a police detective on his way to a school meeting to discuss the issue of sexual predators who attempt to lure adolescent males. Teenage Jimmy Barnes was supposedly playing baseball and did not feel like wa…
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Cartoon
The plot is a parody of the Three Little Pigs, told from a Second World War anti-German propaganda perspective. In this cartoon, the danger is from Adolf Wolf (a caricature of Adolf Hitler), who is set on invading the pig's nation of Pigma…
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Documentation, War Film
Political Thriller, biographical film, propaganda film
Igor Gouzenko (Dana Andrews), an expert at deciphering codes, comes to the Soviet embassy in Ottawa in 1943, along with a Soviet military colonel, Trigorin (Frederic Tozere), and a major, Kulin (Eduard Franz), to set up a base of operation…
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Drama, War Film, action film, propaganda film, war film
A map is shown with a voiceover giving a brief history of the United States military on Wake Island to November 1941. U.S. Marine Corps Major Geoffrey Caton departs Pearl Harbor naval base in Hawaii aboard the Pan American Clipper to take …
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propaganda film, spy film
In the Second World War, Sally Maitland appears to signal Nazi planes during a bombing raid over London, after murdering an innocent citizen in his home. The next morning, she boards a ship bound for Canada. Two of her fellow passengers, J…
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Documentation, War Film, propaganda film
comedy film, propaganda film
In the Kingdom of Moronika, deposed monarch King Herman the 6+7⁄8 is visited by the war profiteers Ixnay, Amscray, and Umpchay, engineers of the coup that led to his ouster. They regret their treason, and now seek to overthrow the tyrannic…
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Documentation, documentary film, propaganda film
thumb|left|A British Army bulldozer pushes bodies into a mass grave at Belsen, April 19, 1945. The film opens with a note that the following is "a reminder that behind the curtain of Nazi pageants and parades was millions of men, women and…
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Documentation, documentary film, propaganda film
The plot of the film revolves around the life of seamen on board an anonymous aircraft carrier. Because of war time restrictions, the name of the aircraft carrier was disguised as "the Fighting Lady", although she was later identified as .…
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Sci-Fi, drama film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
An American astronomer obtains images of Mars suggesting large-scale environmental changes are occurring at a pace that can only be accomplished by intelligent beings with advanced technology. Scientist Chris Cronyn (Peter Graves) and his …
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War Film, propaganda film
In April 1942, after a raid on Japan, eight American aircrew made up of the crews from two North American B-25 Mitchell bombers, are captured. Capt. Harvey Ross (Dana Andrews), becomes the leader of the captives.
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Secret Agent, drama film, propaganda film
In post-World War II Europe, Mike Kells returns to Paris from a courier mission but is reassigned by the State Department to fly to Salzburg and meet his Navy friend Sam Carew, who will pass him a top-secret document on a train-station pla…
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Film Noir, drama film, propaganda film
In 1952 Czechoslovakia, circus man Karel Černík struggles to keep his beloved Cirkus Černík together, which belonged to his family before being nationalized by the Communist government. The government allows Černík to manage the circus, bu…
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Adventure, action film, adventure film, propaganda film, war film
During World War II, Tarzan and his son, Boy, are living on the Great Escarpment, though Jane has returned to the United Kingdom to tend to her sick mother. Jane's letter to Tarzan and Boy describes the ongoing struggle against Nazi German…
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Documentation, War Film, documentary film, propaganda film
thumb|thumbtime=1:02|upright=1.2|The Battle of Russia Part I thumb|thumbtime=0:14|upright=1.2|The Battle of Russia Part II The film begins with an overview of previous failed attempts to conquer Russia: the Teutonic Knights in 1242 (footag…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, propaganda film
The opening credits show huge crowds of workers going into factories. The narrator begins the film with nostalgic views of crowded beaches and remembering what it was like to eat an orange (unavailable during the war). Celia Crowson and he…
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drama film, propaganda film, romance film
In March 1939, English antiques dealer Mrs. Bromley and her assistant Jennifer "Jenny" Whittredge travel through Poland making purchases. In Warsaw, Jenny meets Count Stefan Orwid and, after a whirlwind courtship, he asks her to marry him.
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Documentation, Event Documentary, Investigative Documentary, Long Term Documentary, Political Documentary, War Film, documentary film, propaganda film
propaganda film
The film is an allegorical campaign film, designed to inspire viewers to register and to vote for Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Democratic Party candidate, Roosevelt, is depicted as a modern streamlined locomotive, the "Win the War Special", …
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Documentation, War Film, documentary film, propaganda film
propaganda film
drama film, propaganda film, war film
American orchestra conductor John Meredith (Robert Taylor) and his manager, Hank Higgins (Robert Benchley), travel to the Soviet Union shortly before the country is invaded by Germany. Meredith falls in love with beautiful Soviet pianist N…
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