Teaching Canadian identity, nationhood, and media literacy with Shameless Propaganda
Discover the NFB's WWII-era propaganda effort, and get ideas for teaching about Canadian identity and nationhood to secondary students.
Posts Tagged “propaganda films”
Keep Your Mouth Shut: McLaren’s 1944 “Stop Snitching” Film
If remembering the past is essential to understanding the present, remembering the NFB’s past is essential and occasionally totally hilarious. Consider for example Keep Your Mouth Shut, a 1944 animated...
Rare NFB war films to screen at the Canadian Center for Architecture
As many of you know, the National Film Board played a central role during World War II. Created in 1939, a few months before the hostilities began, the NFB fell...