Propaganda Movie Reviews Samples For Students

In Leni Riefenstahl’s 1935 documentary Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens), the Nazi propaganda was often very subtle rather than simply crude, clumsy and heavy-handed and was designed to make Nazism look appealing. Her boss in this endeavor was Dr. Josef Goebbels who became Reich Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment after the Nazis took power in 1933. He had rapidly brought the mass media, radio, filmmaking, theater, book publishing and the arts under its control. All Jews and persons deemed politically unreliable were expelled from these professions, while writers, artists and journalists who cooperated with the ...

Compare and Contrast Triumph of the Will (1935) and A Film Unfinished (2010)
Both Triumph of the Will (1935) and A Film Unfinished (2010) are remarkably unique documentary films about the Nazis. Triumph des Willens is a German film by German film director, Leni Riefenstahl, in which 6th Nazi Party Congress that took place in Numberg in 1934 has been chronicled. On the other hand, A Film Unfinished, a film by Israeli film director, Yael Hersonski, cannot itself be called a propaganda film. It is actually, an in-depth examination of Das Ghetto (The Ghetto), a German propaganda film produced by the Nazis ...

The advent and growth of the technological sector have been instrumental in the dynamic changes that have been realized in the media sector. The sharing of information and ideas has been revolutionized with the advent of the internet. The speed and rate of information flow have also been enhanced significantly. This essay focuses on analyzing the capacity of new media to cope with the propaganda models as defined and explained by Noam Chomsky. It seeks to expound on the dynamics of new media and the depth to which propaganda models can be applied or fail to work.
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Produced in 1984, Yellow Earth was the first film directed by Chen Kaige, a graduate of the Beijing Film Academy. The film is a period piece, taking place against the backdrop of China when World War II broke out. The film focuses on a communist soldier who comes to a village to collect folk songs to serve as morale-raising communist propaganda for the Eighth Route Army. During his visit to the rural village, the young soldier stays with a family, motherless but with a father, a young boy, and two sisters. The elder sister has already been "married off" in an arranged marriage, and the 14-year-old ...

Lions for Lambs is an American fictional film written by Matthew Michael and released in 2007. Robert Redford directs the film. Arian and Ernest, two determined students at the West Coast University, are being advised by their idealistic professor to do something imperative with their lives. They commit themselves to fighting in the army, in Afghanistan after school valediction as a way of showing their patriotism. Another student, Todd, listens to the professor to learn why Arian and Ernest are in Afghanistan. In Washington, a captivating Republican presidential candidate, Legislator Jasper Irving calls journalist Janine Roth to his office where he ...

Movie review of “The Day the Earth Stood Still”

American cinematography in the 50s operated on full power. Especially there were many films about aliens and terrifying nightmarish monsters. I expected something like before watching “The Day the Earth Stood Still”. Fortunately, my expectations were not met.
This film is something special it's like a pearl, which emerged in the ocean of paranoia, of primitive fantasies and propaganda. All these characteristics, joined together, gave this film immense tenderness and care. Every decade has one or two iconic films that stand out from the crowd of movies released. “The Day the Earth Stood Still” is just one of them. ...

Flags Of Our Fathers has accurately concentrated on the pain, trepidation, and disaster of combat, and the challenges confronted by the three surviving flag raisers as in Joe Rosenthal's Pulitzer Prize-winning World War II photograph, which the government sent on tour over the United States to sway individuals to back the war exertion. The men incorporate Navy corpsman "Doc" Bradley, Ira Hayes and Rene Gagnon. In addition to the enduring, horrific impacts of war felt by the men, the film uncovers the incongruity behind the photograph itself, and how the flag raisers feel misused by the gathering pledges process. ...

Control Room

The feature-length documentary, Control Room is a gritty and realistic presentation of the media’s role in modern warfare. The film’s premise is to demonstrate the contrast between the perception of the Al Jazeera news network in comparison with its reality. Released in 2004, Control Room was filmed, on the ground, during the American 2003 invasion of Iraq in an attempt to overthrow the Saddam Hussein regime and liberate the Iraqi people. The complaint regularly made by western broadcasters and indeed, the U.S. government and military, is that Al Jazeera is sympathetic to the causes of men like Osama ...

Judea Declares War on Germany is one of the famous antifascist films. This film presents a critical look at the WWII. It explains how the Jews at one moment in time declared war on the Germans. Having declared war, the Jews were captured and incarcerated in different prison camps. According to this film, this move led to a situation whereby the Jews were viewed in Germany as insurgents. Because of this, the Jews were detained in the concentration camps. Before the time of the Holocaust and Second World War, the movie explains that the Jews were ready to crush the Germans ...

The 1968 film The Green Berets, starring and co-directed by John Wayne, presents a very pro-American and jingoistic view of the Vietnam War, sugarcoating the more violent and abhorrent aspects of the US Army’s activities during the war in favor of a more benevolent, patriotic mindset. The film follows Colonel Mike Kirby, leader of a Green Beret Unit, as he fights in South Vietnam and defends his men against actions taken by the North Vietnamese. In this essay, several aspects of the film will be critiqued, comparing the viewpoint explored in the film with the truth of US Army actions during ...