Film in a Fascist/ Nazi World

Al-Buraq

Banned
If one took all of the jews, homosexuals and foreigners out of Hollywood in the 1930s, there wouldn't have been much of a cinema there either. ( Come to think if it, today either). That is what happened under National Socialism.
Goebbels, reputedly, got his rocks off on FS1 and Lang's Metropolis and Frau im Mond and asked Lang to head up Ufa. Lang declined, mainly as he would have had to implement the Aryanisation policy.
Many of the top writers, directors and actors who were neither Jewish nor Homosexual found a better financial deal outside of Germany (people could make a lot of Money in Nazi Germany, but currency controls and limited consumer goods meant that there was little to spend it on)
The problem with Science Fiction under a Nazi propaganda ministry is that the best Science Fiction is dis-utopian- a warning about the future. Under National Socialism the Future IS NOW.

As for American fascist cinema--what else was it from 1940 to the late 1960s (and thereafter with some exceptions.)?
Was there a war film or a cowboy film until Soldier Blue and Apolcalyse now that didn't extol the American way and ensure that all the evil Indians/Nazis/Japs/Moro rebels/British/Koreans/Viet Cong etc. died because they were WRONG?
If anyone wanted to make an anti-war film in this period, they had to set it in a foreign army and go and live abroad, like Stanley Kubrick.
 
I would say, and I know not everyone would be likely to agree with this, that if you want an example of what American Fascist cinema would look like, watch 300.

Idiocracy. The idea of genetic inferiors outbreeding us, polluting our bloodlines, and degrading our culture would fit just fine. The exact groups depicted as genetic inferiors would be different in a Fascist America TL, of course.
 
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