A series of six programmes about the cinema and public opinion in the 1940s.
1: and, as far as possible, the whole truth '
The 1940s were the one period of English history when there was a serious and sustained effort by the state to control public opinion. The cinema was one of the main instruments of this campaign. How did the machinery of persuasion work?
Written by NICHOLAS PRONAY
Produced by HOWARD SMITH