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In the years following the October Revolution of 1917, the Soviet government sponsored the Russian film industry with the purpose of making propaganda films. The development of Russian cinema in the 1920s by such filmmakers as Dziga VertovDziga Vertov ( January 2, 1896 February 12, 1954) was a Russian documentary film and newsreel director. Vertov was born Denis Abramovich Kaufman to Jewish intellectuals living in Bialystok—at the time a Russian territory—and Russified his Jewish patronymi and Sergei EisensteinSergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein ( Russian: ( January 23, 1898 February 11, 1948) was a Russian director noted for his films Battleship Potemkin and Oktober both based loosely on a true story and presented in a realistic fashion, causing an immeasurable inf saw considerable progress in the use of the motion picture as a propaganda tool, yet it also served to develop the art of moviemaking. Eisenstein's films in particular are seen as masterworks of the cinema, even as they glorify Eisenstein's Communist ideals.
In the United States during World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough, filmmaker Frank CapraFrank Capra ( May 18, 1897 September 3, 1991) was an American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films. Born in Sicily, Capra moved with his family to America in 1903, settling in Los Angeles, where he graduated fro was called to create films to support the war effort. The result, a seven-part series entitled Why We FightWhy We Fight is the name of a propaganda series of seven newsreels commissioned by the United States government during World War II to convince the U. public about the need for American intervention. Most of the newsreels were directed by Frank Capra, who, is considered another highlight of the propaganda film genre.
In ItalyThe Italian Republic or Italy ( Italian: Italia is a country in the south of Europe, consisting mainly of a boot-shaped peninsula together with two large islands in the Mediterranean Sea: Sicily and Sardinia. To the north, where it borders France, Switzer, at the same time, great film directors like Roberto Rossellini produced works for similar purposes.
Other noted propaganda films:
Noted propagandists:
For more discussion of propaganda and some examples of it in short films from the United States, see the 10-volume CD-ROM collection Our Secret Century . And for a satirical subversion of the United States military's 1960s propaganda regarding the safety of radioactive materials, see The Atomic Cafe.
"Propaganda Films" is also the name of a very successful film production company specialized in producing short advertising films ( TV Commercials and the like)
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