Propaganda

2013

1h 36m

8.1(26 votes)

Documentary

Overview

An anti-western propaganda film about the influences of American visual and consumption culture on the rest of the world, as told from a North Korean perspective.

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86 members

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Susannah Kenton

Narrator (voice)

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Eugene Chang

Doctor of Psychology

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George W. Bush

Self (archive footage)

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Ronald Reagan

Self (archive footage)

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Margaret Thatcher

Self (archive footage)

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Condoleezza Rice

Self (archive footage)

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Colin Powell

Self (archive footage)

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Benedict XVI

Self (archive footage)

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Oprah Winfrey

Self (archive footage)

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Barack Obama

Self (archive footage)

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Paris Hilton

Self (archive footage)

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Katy Perry

Self (archive footage)

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Richard Nixon

Self (archive footage)

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Elvis Presley

Self (archive footage)

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Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

Self (archive footage)

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Tony Blair

Self (archive footage)

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self (archive footage)

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J. Edgar Hoover

Self (archive footage)

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Robert Mugabe

Self (archive footage)

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Ted Haggard

Self (archive footage)

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Jimmy Swaggart

Self (archive footage)

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Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

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Charles Manson

Self (archive footage)

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Bill Clinton

Self (archive footage)

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John Paul II

Self (archive footage)

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George H. W. Bush

Self (archive footage)

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Benito Mussolini

Self (archive footage)

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Idi Amin

Self (archive footage)

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Saddam Hussein

Self (archive footage)

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Donald Rumsfeld

Self (archive footage)

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Dick Cheney

Self (archive footage)

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Hillary Clinton

Self (archive footage)

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Quentin Tarantino

Self (archive footage)

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Clint Eastwood

Self (archive footage)

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Muammar Gaddafi

Self (archive footage)

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Ruhollah Khomeini

Self (archive footage)

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Ellen DeGeneres

Self (archive footage)

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Lady Gaga

Self (archive footage)

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King Charles III of the United Kingdom

Self (archive footage)

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Self (archive footage)

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Harry S. Truman

Self (archive footage)

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John Howard

Self (archive footage)

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Woodrow Wilson

Self (archive footage)

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Joseph Goebbels

Self (archive footage)

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Emperor Hirohito of Japan

Self (archive footage)

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self (archive footage)

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Prescott Bush

Self (archive footage)

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John D. Rockefeller

Self (archive footage)

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David Ben-Gurion

Self (archive footage)

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Ariel Sharon

Self (archive footage)

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Desmond Tutu

Self (archive footage)

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Nicole Kidman

Self (archive footage)

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Sarah Jessica Parker

Self (archive footage)

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Jerry Seinfeld

Self (archive footage)

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Cindy Crawford

Self (archive footage)

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Nicole Richie

Self (archive footage)

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Kim Kardashian

Self (archive footage)

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Khloé Kardashian

Self (archive footage)

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Kourtney Kardashian Barker

Self (archive footage)

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Victoria Beckham

Self (archive footage)

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Kate Moss

Self (archive footage)

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Madonna

Self (archive footage)

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Tiger Woods

Self (archive footage)

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Arnold Schwarzenegger

Self (archive footage)

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Angelina Jolie

Self (archive footage)

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Brad Pitt

Self (archive footage)

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Britney Spears

Self (archive footage)

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Michael Jackson

Self (archive footage)

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Adriana Lima

Self (archive footage)

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Katie Holmes

Self (archive footage)

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Katie Price

Self (archive footage)

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JWoww

Self (archive footage)

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Heidi Montag

Self (archive footage)

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Spencer Pratt

Self (archive footage)

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Jason Mesnick

Self (archive footage)

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Ben Flajnik

Self (archive footage)

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Caite Upton

Self (archive footage)

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Mariah Carey

Self (archive footage)

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Avril Lavigne

Self (archive footage)

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Susan Boyle

Self (archive footage)

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Pauly D.

Self (archive footage)

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Mike Sorrentino

Self (archive footage)

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Snoop Dogg

Self (archive footage)

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Tyra Banks

Self (archive footage)

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Osama bin Laden

Self (archive footage)

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Kim Jong-il

Self (archive footage)

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