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* ''[[Super Size Me]]'' is Morgan Spurlock's documentary exposing the evils of junk food, and was meant to turn people against the fast food industry. It eventually became [[Counterproductive Propaganda]] as Spurlock's methods came under intense scrutiny - particularly the verifiability of his claims and the [[Fridge Logic]] of how a year-long diet consisting of food from a single restaurant would inevitably have adverse health effects.
* ''The Battle at Lake Changjin'' is a film allegedly about the 1950 Battle of the Chosin Reservoir during [[The Korean War]]. As one would expect from a film directly funded by the Chinese Communist Party as part of its 100th anniversary celebration about a conflict the Chinese forces performed remarkably poorly in, the depiction of events is blatantly counter-historic to the point of changing the battle's winner <ref>In reality UN forces escaped encirclement with minimal casualties, losing some territory, while a quarter of Chinese forces were killed in battle on top of nearly as many dying from non-battle conditions like the cold weather. In the film the battle is a clear cut Chinese victory.</ref>. Officially the movie is the highest grossing Chinese film ''ever'', but international analysis is extremely skeptical of the legitimacy of official ticket sales numbers.
* ''[[Sound of Freedom]]'' is on the surface a biopic about a former US agent-turned-[[Paedo Hunt|anti-pedophile activist]] Tim Ballard and his "Operation Underground Railroad" where he conducted anti-human trafficking operations in foreign countries, but progressive critics have accused it of both astroturfing (by way of inflating box office figures through a dubious referral scheme) and the film itself amounting to a QAnon equivalent of ''[[Birth of a Nation]]''. Not helping matters was allegations of hypocrisy and skeletons in the cast and crew's closets: Eduardo Verastegui, one of the film's main actors and producers, was [https://twitter.com/jimstewartson/status/1683883804560355328 exposed] as having rubbed elbows with notorious [[Pedophile Priest]] Marcial Maciel, and Tim Ballard himself garnered [https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkaqvn/tim-ballards-departure-from-operation-underground-railroad-followed-sexual-misconduct-investigation accusations] about having allegedly amassed a collection of child sexual abuse material himself.
* Conversely, some especially on the conservative side of the fence accuse the 2023 satirical fantasy film ''[[Barbie (film)|Barbie]]'' of being an [[Anvilicious]] feminist propaganda piece. Some audiences, particularly in France and South Korea [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/why-barbie-movie-not-successful-south-korea-1235558639/ weren't as receptive] as the rest of the world with the film's themes and message.
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