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Compare with PoesLaw, StrawManNewsMedia, and WarIsGlorious. Contrast with MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting and WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical. Compare and contrast {{Anvilicious}} and AuthorTract. Many marketing techniques are applicable to both propaganda and advertising, for example, compare and contrast AstroTurf with ViralMarketing. See also CannedOrdersOverLoudspeaker, EdutainmentShow, [[MaliciousSlander Malicious Libel]], NewSpeak, {{Newsreel}}s, PatrioticFervor, SubliminalAdvertising, TheWarOnStraw, and Website/TheOtherWiki's article on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_%28psychology%29 "Priming" in psychology.]]

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Compare with PoesLaw, StrawManNewsMedia, and WarIsGlorious. Contrast with MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting and WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical. Compare and contrast {{Anvilicious}} and AuthorTract. Many marketing techniques are applicable to both propaganda and advertising, for example, compare and contrast AstroTurf with ViralMarketing. See also CannedOrdersOverLoudspeaker, EdutainmentShow, [[MaliciousSlander Malicious Libel]], NewSpeak, {{Newsreel}}s, PatrioticFervor, SubliminalAdvertising, TheMoralSubstitute, TheWarOnStraw, and Website/TheOtherWiki's article on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_%28psychology%29 "Priming" in psychology.]]
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*''ComicBook/UnkeptPromise'' is an extended [[AntiAlcoholAesop rant against alcohol as a whole]], first released in 1949--as in a good ''sixteen years'' after Prohibition was repealed. By showing a man's DescentIntoAddiction, it makes its point in the most hyperbolic way possible.
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* ''Fanfic/IronTouch'': [[SmallSecludedWorld Chicago IX]] is rampant with [[Characters/JojosBizarreAdventureDio Dio]] propaganda, including one poster labeled ''DIO APPRECIATION DAY'' with a picture of him dressed up as the Art/StatueOfLiberty. What makes this especially interesting is that [[spoiler:Mr. Williams, the owner of Chicago IX and the one responsible for all the Dio propaganda, never actually met Dio while he was alive and therefore lacks the UndyingLoyalty that most of his remaining followers have (like [[VillainousCrush Midler]]). Mr. Williams' goal is just to lure ''any'' vampire to the resort so that he can make his elderly pet cat immortal, he just uses Dio as a figurehead for the effort because of his existing legacy]].
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** ''Film/TriumphOfTheWill'' is about the 1934 Nazi Party Congress. Considered a groundbreaker in the use of propaganda, and highly influential. Its most iconic visuals have become a stock reference, most famously in the medal scene that ends ''[[Film/ANewHope Star Wars]]''.

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** ''Film/TriumphOfTheWill'' is ''Film/TriumphOfTheWill'', Creator/LeniRiefenstahl's documentary about the 1934 Nazi Party Congress.Congress in Uremberg. Considered a groundbreaker in the use of propaganda, and highly influential. Its most iconic visuals have become a stock reference, most famously in the medal scene that ends ''[[Film/ANewHope Star Wars]]''.Wars]]''.
** ''[[Film/JewSuss1940 Jew Süss]]'' (1940), an infamous [[GreedyJew antisemitic]] PeriodPiece.
** ''The Eternal Jew'' (1940), a rabidly antisemitic DocumentaryOfLies.
** ''Film/TheGreatKing'' (1942), a historical epic that also doubled as propaganda for the ''Führerprinzip'' (total obedience to UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler).


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** ''Film/{{Kolberg}}'' (1945), a historical epic that was meant to boost the German population's morale in the face of the Western Allied and Soviet invasion (it only came out in two theaters in the end).
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* UsefulNotes/{{Nazi|Germany}}s didn't do this ''all'' the time. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Minister of Propaganda]] Joseph Goebbels recognized that constant indoctrination would turn off audiences, so most Nazi cinema consisted of comedies and romances and other escapism. But they did use the film industry for political messaging. Website/TheOtherWiki has a list [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Nazi_propaganda_films here]]. Notable Nazi propaganda films include:

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* UsefulNotes/{{Nazi|Germany}}s didn't do this ''all'' the time. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Minister of Propaganda]] Joseph Goebbels Propaganda UsefulNotes/JosephGoebbels recognized that constant indoctrination would turn off audiences, so most Nazi cinema consisted of comedies and romances and other escapism. But they did use the film industry for political messaging. Website/TheOtherWiki has a list [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Nazi_propaganda_films here]]. Notable Nazi propaganda films include:
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* Theatre/MarginForError'' is a 1939 play (later made into a 1943 movie) about the mysterious death of a Nazi diplomat in New York City, with said diplomat being involved in a sabotage plot against the United States and one of his aides' gradual disillusionment with Nazism being portrayed as a good thing.
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* ''Series/VictoryAtSea'' is a 26 part series on WWII.

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* ''Film/FortyNinthParallel'' was made partially to encourage America to end its neutrality at the beginning of the war, and does show by showing a mostly scummy group of stranded Nazi sailors killing their way across Canada to seek political asylum in the U.S., while becoming a DwindlingParty thanks to the occasional unlikely Canadian hero.
* While often overshadowed by its other messages and virtues, ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' was made during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and shows the evil of the Nazis, the desperation of many innocent people fleeing them, and the heroism of those who resist them.
* ''Film/DesperateJourney'' and ''Film/OneOfOurAircraftIsMissing'' were both made during the war and follow the struggles of Allied bomber crews who are shot down and flee back to their own lines with the help of LaResistance.
* ''Film/TheFightingSeabees'' is a 1944 movie that follows American construction workers who are determined to do more for the war effort, gradually forming a serious military unit, while their sadistic Japanese adversaries get a highly unflattering portrayal.
* ''Film/HangmenAlsoDie'' is a FilmNoir following a noble resistance fighter trying to save himself and the civilians being threatened with retaliatory execution after killing Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich. Heyrdich was a real person who really was assassinated by Resistance fighters, but few details were known about what had happened at the time (and resulted in a tragic ending for the assassins, unlike the inspiring and unambiguously pushy happy ending the film chose) and the filmmakers decided to move while the incident was fresh and make up their own story.
* ''Film/HitlerDeadOrAlive'' is a 1942 movie about a hit squad going after a cowardly, SmallNameBigEgo version of Hitler.
* ''Series/VictoryAtSea'' is a 26 part series on WWII.WWII about naval warfare.
* ''Film/WentTheDayWell'' (a partial inspiration for the postwar novel ''Film/TheEagleHasLanded'' and its blockbuster film adaptation) tells a fictional story of a unit of German soldiers infiltrating England during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, instilling the DayOfTheJackboot over a village they plan to use as a base, and getting their just deserts when the locals fight back. While the movie was made in 1942, the filmmakers were optimistic enough (or at least wanted their audiences to be) to include flash-forward scenes where one of the villagers recounts what happened at an unspecified future date after the Allies won the war.


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* ''Film/TheGreenBerets'', made during UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, vilifies the North Vietnamese, while portraying the American soldiers as men who constantly die horribly but are accomplishing a greater purpose and deserve support that could turn the tide of the war. To its credit, the film at least portrays the Green Berets of the time more realistically, as primarily military advisors rather than Rambo-esque fighting machines.

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** ''Film/{{Titanic|1943}}'' (1943), based on the events of the sinking of the UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic, used for anti-British propaganda (adding a fictional German officer [[IgnoredExpert whose warnings]] were ignored by the [[EvilBrit greedy and arrogant British owner of the shipping line]]). It was shelved by the censors when it was realized that a film about a crowd of panicking people dying in helpless situation would remind the German populace, who were at that time subjected to almost nightly air raids by the Allies, of their own perilous situation.

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** ''Film/{{Titanic|1943}}'' (1943), based on the events of the sinking of the UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic, used for anti-British propaganda (adding a fictional German officer [[IgnoredExpert whose warnings]] were ignored by the [[EvilBrit greedy and arrogant British owner of the shipping line]]). It was shelved by the censors when it was realized that a film about a crowd of panicking people dying in helpless situation would remind the German populace, who were at that time subjected to almost nightly air raids by the Allies, of their own perilous situation.situation (something some critics speculate the director-who was arrested and possibly murdered for criticizing the German military-did intentionally).


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* ''Literature/CudjosCave'' is a novel of UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar written during the war itself by anti-slavery author John Townsend Towbridge. In the story, those who oppose secession and slavery in a small Tennessee community find themselves being victimized by those who favor it. An odd quartet of allies, two white and two black, find themselves hiding in a mountain cave as circumstances gradually give them a chance to rally some like-minded neighbors and strike a blow against the Confederacy.
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* All the viral messages in the ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' movies are a pastiche of propaganda recruitment tools.

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* All the viral messages in the ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' movies are a pastiche of propaganda recruitment tools. For example, the third movie has the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIsv1YOFNys "It's a Good Day to Die!"]] sold by the Federation as the [=#1=] hit single.



* ''Film/StarshipTroopers3Marauder'' has the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIsv1YOFNys "It's a Good Day to Die!"]] sold by the Federation as the [=#1=] hit single.

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* ''Film/StarshipTroopers3Marauder'' has the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIsv1YOFNys "It's a Good Day to Die!"]] sold by the Federation as the [=#1=] hit single.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': has Mr. Burns' film entry for the Springfield Film Festival, titled ''A Burns for All Seasons'', in the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E18AStarIsBurns A Star is Burns]]". The film was designed to [[HistoricalHeroUpgrade help remake his public image]], but ends up failing ''miserably'' when it receives a very negative reception at the festival.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has Mr. Burns' film entry for the Springfield Film Festival, titled ''A Burns for All Seasons'', in the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E18AStarIsBurns A Star is Burns]]". The film was designed to [[HistoricalHeroUpgrade help remake his public image]], but ends up failing ''miserably'' when it receives a very negative reception at the festival.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': has Mr. Burns' film entry for the Springfield Film Festival, titled ''A Burns for All Seasons'', in the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E18AStarIsBurns A Star is Burns]]". The film was designed to [[HistoricalHeroUpgrade help remake his public image]], but ends up failing ''miserably'' when it receives a very negative reception at the festival.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Helldivers}} 2'' opens with a propaganda "public service announcement" encouraging the viewer to join the Helldivers and protect Super Earth from the threats of their enemies while spreading "managed democracy" throughout the galaxy. It is every bit as hokey and hammy as the propaganda from ''Film/StarshipTroopers''.
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* Before and during World War II, novelty musician Music/SpikeJones recorded a number of songs supporting the war effort in his own style, with "Der Fuehrer's Face" being the most renown. Other titles include "Little Bo Beep Has Lost Her Jeep", "48 Reasons Why", "Trailer Annie", and "You're a Sap Mister Jap".

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* Before and during World War II, novelty musician Music/SpikeJones recorded a number of songs supporting the war effort in his own style, with "Der Fuehrer's Face" "WesternAnimation/DerFuehrersFace" being the most renown. Other titles include "Little Bo Beep Has Lost Her Jeep", "48 Reasons Why", "Trailer Annie", and "You're a Sap Mister Jap".
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* In ''Literature/PosterGirl'' the main character Sonya Kantor served as the titular Poster Girl for the propaganda department of the Delegation, a tyrannical regime in a post collapse USA. The poster showing her alongside the Delegation`s slogan "WHAT’S RIGHT IS RIGHT". Even now 10 years after the Delegation was overthrown, most people still know Sonya as "The Poster Girl". The Poster is also depiced on most covers of the novel.
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* ''[[Franchise/StarWars Star Wars]] Propaganda: A History of Persuasive Art in the Galaxy'' contains fifty different propaganda posters from the original, prequel, and sequel eras, with accompanying in-universe analysis of their historical context. The page image is one such piece.

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* ''[[Franchise/StarWars Star Wars]] Propaganda: A History of Persuasive Art in the Galaxy'' contains fifty different propaganda posters from all sides of the original, prequel, and sequel eras, with accompanying in-universe analysis of their historical context. The page image is one such piece.
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* ''[[Franchise/StarWars Star Wars]] Propaganda: A History of Persuasive Art in the Galaxy'' contains fifty different propaganda posters from the original, prequel, and sequel eras, with accompanying in-universe analysis of their historical context. The page image is one such piece.
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Compare with PoesLaw, StrawManNewsMedia, and WarIsGlorious. Contrast with MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting and WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical. Compare and contrast {{Anvilicious}}. Many marketing techniques are applicable to both propaganda and advertising, for example, compare and contrast AstroTurf with ViralMarketing. See also CannedOrdersOverLoudspeaker, EdutainmentShow, [[MaliciousSlander Malicious Libel]], NewSpeak, {{Newsreel}}s, PatrioticFervor, SubliminalAdvertising, TheWarOnStraw, and Website/TheOtherWiki's article on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_%28psychology%29 "Priming" in psychology.]]

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Compare with PoesLaw, StrawManNewsMedia, and WarIsGlorious. Contrast with MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting and WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical. Compare and contrast {{Anvilicious}}.{{Anvilicious}} and AuthorTract. Many marketing techniques are applicable to both propaganda and advertising, for example, compare and contrast AstroTurf with ViralMarketing. See also CannedOrdersOverLoudspeaker, EdutainmentShow, [[MaliciousSlander Malicious Libel]], NewSpeak, {{Newsreel}}s, PatrioticFervor, SubliminalAdvertising, TheWarOnStraw, and Website/TheOtherWiki's article on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_%28psychology%29 "Priming" in psychology.]]

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