Pitch People

A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was...

From 1957 —the year in which the Soviets put the Sputnik 1 satellite into orbit— to 1969 —when American astronaut Neil Armstrong...

Arguing that advertising not only sells things, but also ideas about the world, media scholar Sut Jhally offers a blistering analysis of commercial...

Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant...

Hollywood movies are rapidly becoming vehicles for the ulterior marketing and advertising motives of studios and their owners, rather than...

Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one...

No Measure of Health profiles Kyle Magee, an anti-advertising activist from Melbourne, Australia, who for the past 10 years has been going out into...

A documentary about branding, advertising and product placement that is financed and made possible by brands, advertising and product placement.

Once upon a time... consumer goods were built to last. Then, in the 1920’s, a group of businessmen realized that the longer their product...

Focusing directly on the world of commercial images, Sut Jhally asks some basic questions about the cultural messages emanating from this...

A documentary on the marketing of pop culture to Teenagers.

Programming the Nation? takes an encompassing look at the history of subliminal messaging in America. According to many authorities, since the late...