The Lion Has Wings (1939)

Production on The Thief of Bagdad was put on hold to make this piece, so it was included on the Criterion DVD for that film. Overt propaganda films are fascinating to me and I have a hard time believing that they are capable of inspiring or changing minds, but I could be wrong. More than half of this film is spent with a narrator who goes through the history of the rise of Hitler to the early days of World War II, including all the reasons why there is no other possible conclusion than Britain winning big time. There is an additional fictional story involving RAF pilots and their families to moisten some of the dryness of the rest of the narrative.