25 Movies That Are Basically Propaganda

PocketEpiphany Published 03/25/2022 in wow

Everyone likes a movie with a message. But what if the real message is secretly hidden?

Plenty of your favorite movies are thinly-veiled propaganda. And here are a few of the worst offenders!

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1. Wreck-it Ralph 2: Ralph Breaks My F*cking Sanity-u/N0thingRhymeswOrange
2. I feel like The Internship was a way for Google to advertise their workspace and job environment lol-u/carlosburger
3. Oh man, there was a "documentary" a while back called "What the Bleep Do We Know?" that advertised itself as a science documentary exploring the weirdness of quantum physics. It sounded cool and I actually went and saw it in the theater.

Turns out it was a flat-out scam promoting the ideas of a new age cult called the Ramtha School of Enlightenment. A handful of physicists were duped into appearing and heavily edited to appear as though they agreed with the cult's message. I've never felt so cheated leaving a theater.-u/NotABonobo
4. Rocky 4, love the movie whole heartedly but Rocky winning the Cold War was a bit blatant-u/chroniclesoffarnia
5. That movie Battleship was basically one long advert for the Navy.-u/Drew-
6. Rambo III hanging out with Osama bin Laden and other anti-Soviet child Freedom Fighters in Afghanistan.-u/norbertus
7. Reefer Madness It's so unrealistic how most movies and shows depict marijuana. They just straight up make up side effects.-u/KuraiKuroNeko
8. Well, when I finished watching The Lego Movie in theaters, I realized that I had watched a 2 hour commercial. I wasn't mad about it.-u/ShovelingSunshine
9. Mac and Me. McDonalds is/was never this awesome.-u/goosebattle
10. Zero Dark Thirty and Argo were both made with very high levels of involvement by the CIA.-u/snarf_victory
11. Birth of a Nation was.-u/Coasterman345
12. Battlefield Earth It was based off the book written by the nut job who made up Scientology-u/Upstairs-Traffic9221
13. Top Gun. Blatant propaganda.-u/DanMittaul
14. If you see anything along the lines of "the producers would like to thank xyz branch of the US military..." it means the Pentagon got to rewrite the movie. There's a group called the Pentagon Film Office. They coordinate with high-level movie production companies. If you agree to portray the military the way they want, they'll lend you millions in military equipment. The military gets a boost to recruiting and retention in return. But the catch is that they get to redline your script. They've ruined a lot of good movies.

There was a forgettable Nicolas Cage movie a few years back called Windtalkers. If you read the original script, it was darker, and showed the Americans in general and the marine Marines specifically in a rather negative light. But by the time the Pentagon Film Office got through with it it was another generic celebrity vehicle. This happens all of the time. The really twisted part is that production companies will make concessions even if they can't get support for that particular movie.

Like Forrest Gump originally had a lot more Vietnam stuff in it. They brought up this program where the Army experimented with recruiting the mentally disabled. It really happened, but the military didn't want to talk about it in a Tom Hanks movie. Even though the producers couldn't twist the script enough to get it approved, the producers still took that part of the movie out to stay on the military's good side. -u/Sparky_Valentine
15. Even as a Christian, I'd say the movie 'God's Not Dead'. It's such an over exaggeration of Christian life and it demonizes everyone who isn't a Christian especially Atheists and people of different beliefs. It's a bad film and should be offensive to everyone including Christians.-u/McFrostee
16. The Michael Bay Transformer Movies. Think about it, weird evil robot aliens attack earth and the American military helps fight them off and save the day.-u/ROAM300
17. American Sniper turned an absolute psychopath who bragged about killing people in New Orleans during Katrina into an American hero.-u/Unsettleingpresence
18. The Green Berets. “You’re what this war is all about!”Sure, Marrion/John, sure. It was totally about random Vietnamese boys and not Cold War proxy fighting.-u/Tacitus111
19. Black Hawk Down is pretty much 90% propaganda. They left out one of the soldiers holding a family hostage, not to even mention that the main character's name had to be changed because the guy he's loosely based on went to prison for raping a little girl-u/TheonlyAngryLemon
20. Captain America, don’t come for me pls-u/skylalust
21. Those Kirk Cameron “Left Behind” movies.-u/michaelyup
22. Red Dawn (the 2012 one) was supposed to be about China being the invaders, but China said if they were to air the movie it would not only be banned in China, but the rest of the movies from that film company would also be permanently banned from China, which is a bigger market than the US.Originally Disney was going to do a movie about the persecution of the Fulon Going group, but again China said it would ban Disney movies because it would paint China negatively, so instead Disney made Mulan.Their propaganda machine effects what we create, making the US complacent and willing to work with China and their propaganda.-u/magarkle
23. Unfortunately, The Bee Movie is capitalist propaganda.-u/cleo-banana
24. Starship Troopers. Though that's actually part of the satire.-u/DaedalusRaistlin
25. The Pursuit of Happiness. It's the American dream: If only you work hard enough you might end up along with those other rich people at Wall Street who all definitely got there by hard work. All the while you witness the rampant poverty and lack of social structure and equality in America, but it's all okay because one guy, who is lucky enough to be born a genius and can solve Rubik's cubes and who totally ignores his son, cries at the end because he got a job.-u/eric4047

1. Wreck-it Ralph 2: Ralph Breaks My F*cking Sanity-u/N0thingRhymeswOrange
2. I feel like The Internship was a way for Google to advertise their workspace and job environment lol-u/carlosburger
3. Oh man, there was a "documentary" a while back called "What the Bleep Do We Know?" that advertised itself as a science documentary exploring the weirdness of quantum physics. It sounded cool and I actually went and saw it in the theater.

Turns out it was a flat-out scam promoting the ideas of a new age cult called the Ramtha School of Enlightenment. A handful of physicists were duped into appearing and heavily edited to appear as though they agreed with the cult's message. I've never felt so cheated leaving a theater.-u/NotABonobo
4. Rocky 4, love the movie whole heartedly but Rocky winning the Cold War was a bit blatant-u/chroniclesoffarnia
5. That movie Battleship was basically one long advert for the Navy.-u/Drew-
6. Rambo III hanging out with Osama bin Laden and other anti-Soviet child Freedom Fighters in Afghanistan.-u/norbertus
7. Reefer Madness It's so unrealistic how most movies and shows depict marijuana. They just straight up make up side effects.-u/KuraiKuroNeko
8. Well, when I finished watching The Lego Movie in theaters, I realized that I had watched a 2 hour commercial. I wasn't mad about it.-u/ShovelingSunshine
9. Mac and Me. McDonalds is/was never this awesome.-u/goosebattle
10. Zero Dark Thirty and Argo were both made with very high levels of involvement by the CIA.-u/snarf_victory
11. Birth of a Nation was.-u/Coasterman345
12. Battlefield Earth It was based off the book written by the nut job who made up Scientology-u/Upstairs-Traffic9221
13. Top Gun. Blatant propaganda.-u/DanMittaul
14. If you see anything along the lines of "the producers would like to thank xyz branch of the US military..." it means the Pentagon got to rewrite the movie. There's a group called the Pentagon Film Office. They coordinate with high-level movie production companies. If you agree to portray the military the way they want, they'll lend you millions in military equipment. The military gets a boost to recruiting and retention in return. But the catch is that they get to redline your script. They've ruined a lot of good movies.

There was a forgettable Nicolas Cage movie a few years back called Windtalkers. If you read the original script, it was darker, and showed the Americans in general and the marine Marines specifically in a rather negative light. But by the time the Pentagon Film Office got through with it it was another generic celebrity vehicle. This happens all of the time. The really twisted part is that production companies will make concessions even if they can't get support for that particular movie.

Like Forrest Gump originally had a lot more Vietnam stuff in it. They brought up this program where the Army experimented with recruiting the mentally disabled. It really happened, but the military didn't want to talk about it in a Tom Hanks movie. Even though the producers couldn't twist the script enough to get it approved, the producers still took that part of the movie out to stay on the military's good side. -u/Sparky_Valentine
15. Even as a Christian, I'd say the movie 'God's Not Dead'. It's such an over exaggeration of Christian life and it demonizes everyone who isn't a Christian especially Atheists and people of different beliefs. It's a bad film and should be offensive to everyone including Christians.-u/McFrostee
16. The Michael Bay Transformer Movies. Think about it, weird evil robot aliens attack earth and the American military helps fight them off and save the day.-u/ROAM300
17. American Sniper turned an absolute psychopath who bragged about killing people in New Orleans during Katrina into an American hero.-u/Unsettleingpresence
18. The Green Berets. “You’re what this war is all about!”Sure, Marrion/John, sure. It was totally about random Vietnamese boys and not Cold War proxy fighting.-u/Tacitus111
19. Black Hawk Down is pretty much 90% propaganda. They left out one of the soldiers holding a family hostage, not to even mention that the main character's name had to be changed because the guy he's loosely based on went to prison for raping a little girl-u/TheonlyAngryLemon
20. Captain America, don’t come for me pls-u/skylalust
21. Those Kirk Cameron “Left Behind” movies.-u/michaelyup
22. Red Dawn (the 2012 one) was supposed to be about China being the invaders, but China said if they were to air the movie it would not only be banned in China, but the rest of the movies from that film company would also be permanently banned from China, which is a bigger market than the US.Originally Disney was going to do a movie about the persecution of the Fulon Going group, but again China said it would ban Disney movies because it would paint China negatively, so instead Disney made Mulan.Their propaganda machine effects what we create, making the US complacent and willing to work with China and their propaganda.-u/magarkle
23. Unfortunately, The Bee Movie is capitalist propaganda.-u/cleo-banana
24. Starship Troopers. Though that's actually part of the satire.-u/DaedalusRaistlin
25. The Pursuit of Happiness. It's the American dream: If only you work hard enough you might end up along with those other rich people at Wall Street who all definitely got there by hard work. All the while you witness the rampant poverty and lack of social structure and equality in America, but it's all okay because one guy, who is lucky enough to be born a genius and can solve Rubik's cubes and who totally ignores his son, cries at the end because he got a job.-u/eric4047