To Tell the Truth Strategy of Truth (Season 1, Episode 2)
TV Episode | Documentary

To Tell the Truth

Strategy of Truth (Season 1, Episode 2)

TV Episode | Documentary

Explores the role of film as propaganda during World War II, and the different forms it took in the US, the UK, and Germany. It also raises the central question of whether a film can be both documentary - reflecting the truth - and propaganda.

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24 cast members

Name	Known for
Alec Baldwin Self - Narrator Self - Narrator See fewer	The Departed (2006)
Aram Boyajian Self - WWII Draftee Self - WWII Draftee See fewer	Consumer Reports Presents (1980)
Kevin Brownlow Self Self See fewer	It Happened Here (1964)
Frank Capra Self (archive sound) Self (archive sound) See fewer	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Thomas Cripps Self Self See fewer	Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist (1998)
David Culbert Self Self See fewer	The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993)
Jo Fox Self - Film Historian Self - Film Historian See fewer	Britain Through a Lens - The Documentary Film Mob (2011)
Truman Gibson Self Self See fewer	The Negro Soldier (1944)
William Greaves Self - WWII Soldier Self - WWII Soldier See fewer	Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968)
Adolf Hitler Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Triumph of the Will (1935)
Ivan Houston Self - WWII Solder Self - WWII Solder See fewer	With One Tied Hand (2016)
Pat Jackson Self Self See fewer	White Corridors (1951)
Mary Louise Jennings Self Self See fewer	To Tell the Truth (II) (2016)
John Krish Self Self See fewer	I Think They Call Him John (1964)
Lowell Mellett Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The World at War (1942)
Carlton Moss Self (archive sound) Self (archive sound) See fewer	Frederick Douglass: The House on Cedar Hill (1953)
Jeffrey Richards Self - Film Historian Self - Film Historian See fewer	The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors (III) (1986)
Franklin D. Roosevelt Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The President's Mystery (1936)
Ernst Röhm Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Victory of the Faith (1933)
Leo Seltzer Self - WWII Draftee Self - WWII Draftee See fewer	First Steps (1947)
Cecile Starr Self Self See fewer	Islamic Carpets (1970)
Harry Watt Self (archive sound) Self (archive sound) See fewer	Four Desperate Men (1959)
Brian Winston Self Self See fewer	Timeshift (2002)
Charles Wolfe Self - Film Historian Self - Film Historian See fewer	To Tell the Truth (II) (2016)