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At the turn of the 20th century, films emerged as the new cultural agents, depicting events and showing foreign images to mass audiences in European and American cities.

Politics and film began to intertwine with the reconstruction of the Boer War for a film audience and recordings of war in the Balkans.

The new medium proved very useful for political and military interests when it came to reaching a broad segment of the population and creating consent or encouraging rejection of the real or imagined enemy.

They also provided a forceful voice for independent critics of contemporary events.