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Nations were new to cinema and its capability to spread and influence mass sentiment at the start of World War I.The early years of the war were experimental in regard to using films as a propaganda tool, but eventually became a central instrument for what George Mosse has called the "nationalization of the masses" as nations learned to manipulate emotions to mobilize the people for a national ...
American Revolutionary War: 2006 Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man: Robin Shuffield Documentary: Revolution, Burkina Faso: 2007 Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation: Charles Burnett: Historical drama: Namibian War of Independence: 2007 The War on Democracy: John Pilger: Historical drama: US Imperialism: 2008 Baler: Mark Meily: Historical drama ...
The media was expected to take sides, not to remain neutral, during World War I.When Wilhelm II declared a state of war in Germany on July 31, the commanders of the army corps (German: Stellvertretende Generalkommandos) took control of the administration, including implementing a policy of press censorship, which was carried out under Walter Nicolai.
During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to be a German spy. She herself ends up working for German intelligence. A, D 1937 US Street of Shadows: Mademoiselle Docteur: G. W. Pabst: During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to be a German ...
French film about the contribution of colonial French North Africa's soldiers during the Second World War. Dawn of the Damned: 1966 French-shot film footage of their tortures, massacres and executions of Algerians. The Descendants: 2011 A Honolulu-based attorney and the sole trustee of a family trust of 100 km 2 of pristine land on Kauai. El ...
The French colonial empire of extended over 11,500,000 km 2 (4,400,000 sq mi) at its height in the 1920s and had a population of 110 million people on the eve of World War II. [90] [91] In World War II, Charles de Gaulle and the Free French used the overseas colonies as bases from which they fought to liberate France. However, after 1945 anti ...
In the First World War, British propaganda took various forms, including pictures, literature and film. Britain also placed significant emphasis on atrocity propaganda as a way of mobilising public opinion against Imperial Germany and the Central Powers during the First World War. [1] For the global picture, see Propaganda in World War I.
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."