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Pare Lorentz's The Plow That Broke the Plains ( 1936 ) and The River ( 1938 ) and Willard Van Dyke's The City ( 1939 ) 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 ( 1942 – 1944 ) 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.