Melania Trump's new documentary is pulled from South African cinemas over propaganda concerns, while a lavish £59 million premiere in Washington draws controversial political allies.
Since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, life has changed in Russia - everything from what Russians can say to what they can buy. Perhaps most of all, it's changed what they ...
Roland Sejko’s doc “A State Film,” culled from a vast archive of official footage made under the regime of Albanian strongman Enver Hoxha, is a fascinating study in the power of image and myth.
Amid ongoing propaganda film study sessions praising the greatness of Kim Jong Un in South Hamgyong province, authorities are ...
This cleareyed documentary looks at how Leni Riefenstahl, the director of the Nazi propaganda film “Triumph of the Will,” tirelessly tried to rewrite history. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ...
“In North Korea, films are produced to serve as regime propaganda. While young people are aware of that, most of them don’t ...
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When does a documentary become propaganda?

Every year, I try to catch as many of the Academy Award documentaries as possible. And if there's a big doc that goes wild ...
It was directed by Brett Ratner, known for the Rush Hour series and X Men: The Last Stand, whose Hollywood career stalled in ...
Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will (1935) is rightly famous (and notorious) as the most powerful propaganda film ever made: a documentary account of the Nazis’ massive, staged-for-the-camera ...
Much like the tobacco industry and cancer, the oil industry knew for a long time that its products were terrible for both the planet and the people who live here. But where there's a lot of money to ...