Shameless Propaganda
1 votes
This feature documentary examines its own genre, which has often been called Canada's national art form. Released in the year of the NFB's 75th birthday, Shameless Propaganda is filmmaker Robert Lower's take on the boldest and most compelling propaganda effort in our history (1939-1945), in which founding NFB Commissioner John Grierson saw the documentary as a "hammer to shape society". All 500 of the films produced by the NFB until 1945 are distilled here for the essence of their message to Canadians. Using only these films and still photos from that era, Lower recreates the picture of Canada they gave us and looks in it for the Canada we know today. What he finds is by turns enlightening, entertaining, and unexpectedly disturbing.
Status: Released
Released Date: 2013-07-01
Runtime: 72 mins
Director: Robert Lower
Writer: Robert Lower
Spoken language: English
Genres: Documentary
Original title: Shameless Propaganda
Production Companies: ONF | NFB
Production Countries: Canada
Recommendations
We Met At Midway - Two Survivors Remember
2020-02-15
Interviews with two veteran survivors of the pivotal battle of WWII
Night and Fog
1959-04-27
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
EXPO 67 Mission Impossible
2017-04-25
This documentary let us to relive the challenge of the men behind the 1967 Universal Exposition in M
D-Day: Normandy 1944
2014-03-21
June 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy, France. Yet, few know
Frank mezi námi
1946-03-08
Good Old Czechs
2022-09-15
František Fajtl and Filip Jánský were among the few Czechoslovak airmen who actively fought on all m
Occupation 101: Voices of the Silenced Majority
2006-03-25
A thought-provoking documentary on the current and historical causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conf
Japan's War in Colour
2005-01-17
Using never-before-seen footage, Japan's War In Colour tells a previously untold story. It recounts
Accidental Anarchist
2017-07-23
Carne Ross was a government highflyer. A career diplomat who believed Western Democracy could save u
Thanks Girls and Goodbye
1988-09-22
Documentary using archival footage, newsreels and contemporary interviews with women of the WW2 Aust
The Great Patriotic War
1965-11-19
This communist history film recalls the heroism of Soviet soldiers fighting the Nazis in World War I
Highway to the Arctic
2017-02-21
Every winter for decades, the Northwest Territories, in the Canadian Far North, changes its face. Wh
Victory in the West
1941-05-07
A Nazi propaganda film about the lead up to World War II and Germany's success on the Western Front.
Northlore
2025-02-21
Weaving animation and live action, Northlore delves into the transformational stories of people livi
The Russia We Lost
1992-08-09
The sequel of feature-publicistic film «You Can’t Live Like That». Showing the countrymen charmless
Cake Bakers & Trouble Makers: Lucy Worsley's 100 Years of the WI
2015-07-20
Documentary to mark the WI's centenary. Lucy Worsley goes beyond the stereotypes of jam and Jerusale
Auschwitz: Countdown To Liberation
2025-01-26
Mein Kampf
1960-04-24
"Mein Kampf" presents the raising and fall of the Third Reich, showing mainly the destruction of Pol
The Unconquered
2017-09-15
The Institute of National Remembrance, Fish Ladder and Juice present “The Unconquered” – an animated
What They Found
2025-03-26
The story of two soldier-cameramen, Sgt Mike Lewis and Sgt Bill Lawrie, who witnessed the liberation