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Line 53: The propagandist tradition consists of films made with the explicit purpose of persuading an audience of a point. One of the most notorious [[propaganda film]]s is [[Leni Riefenstahl]]'s film ''[[Triumph of the Will]]''. Leftist filmmakers [[Joris Ivens]] and [[Henri Storck]] directed ''[[Borinage]]'' about the Belgian coal mining region. [[Luis Buñuel]] directed a "[[surrealism\|surrealist]]" documentary ''[[Land Without Bread\|Las Hurdes]]''. [[Pare Lorentz]]'s ''[[The Plow That Broke the Plains]]'' and ''[[The River (1938 film)\|The River]]'' and [[Willard Van Dyke]]'s ''The City'' are notable [[New Deal]] productions, each presenting complex combinations of social and ecological awareness, government propaganda, and leftist viewpoints. [[Frank Capra]]'s ''[[Why We Fight]]'' series was a newsreel series in the United States, commissioned by the government to convince the U.S. public that it was time to go to war. [[Constance Bennett]] and her husband [[Henri de la Falaise]] produced two feature length documentaries, ''[[Legong: Dance of the Virgins]]'' (1935) filmed in [[Bali]], and ''Kilou the Killer Tiger]]'' (1936) filmed in [[Indochina]]. In Canada the [[National Film Board of Canada\|Film Board]], set up by [[John Grierson\|Grierson]], was created for the same propaganda reasons. It also created newsreels that were seen by their national governments as legitimate counter-propaganda to the psychological warfare of [[Nazi]] Germany (orchestrated by [[Joseph Goebbels]]).