During World War II and immediately after it, in addition to the many private films created to help the war effort, many Allied countries had governmental or semi-governmental agencies commission propaganda and training films for home and foreign consumption. Animated films are not included here.

British Empire and Commonwealth.

United Kingdom

1939

1940

1941

1942

1943

1944

1945

Australia

In Australia the Australian News and Information Bureau, under the Department of Information, produced the following

Canada

In Canada, the National Film Board of Canada either distributed or produced the following as part of its Canada Carries On and The World in Action series.

1940

1941

1942

1943

1944

1945

India

United States

The United States had the largest film industry of any of the Allied powers, and its use for propaganda purposes is legendary. Because it was so big, there was no single governmental or semi-governmental agency that centrally controlled it. Instead, the Office of War Information co-ordinated efforts among many entities to produce propaganda: OCIAA: Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs OEM: Office for Emergency Management OSS: Office of Strategic Services USAAF: United States Army Air Forces USASC: U.S. Army Signal Corps USASSD: U.S. Army Special Service Division USDA: United States Department of Agriculture USDT: United States Department of Treasury USN: United States Navy USDW: United States Department of War WACMPI: War Activities Committee of the Motion Pictures Industry Several of these films, although they have propaganda value, were used as training films for the United States armed forces.

1941

Pre-December films given IMDb release date where available.

1942

1943

1944

1945

1946

1947

Year uncertain

Netherlands and Belgium

The low countries were overrun by Nazi Germany in the May–June 1940 blitzkrieg. The Dutch East Indies, the Netherlands most important colony, was conquered by Japan in early 1942. However each had a government in exile which set up the Belgian Ministry of Information and Netherlands Information Bureau, which produced the following films. There were also films made by the resistance while the respective countries were occupied.

Soviet Union

In the Soviet Union, unless otherwise noted, the Central Newsreel Studio produced these films.

Soviet films made for foreign markets

In addition to the above, the Soviet cinema distributing company, Artkino, produced the following for foreign markets.