10 Films That Were Blatant Propaganda

Politics aside, there are certain standards one must pass in order to be a successful filmmaker by any metric. Objectively speaking, there are simple things, like lighting (most critics include one star if they can just see the damn thing, which is more of a problem than you would think). But beyond technical issues, storytelling must be both a passion as well as an ability.

Dinesh D'Souza first appeared on the political scene, not the cinematic one, over two decades ago. The now-pardoned lawbreaker came out of Dartmouth a razor-tongued conservative pundit. But there was something a little different about him - just slightly more extreme. D'Souza holds his opinions to be self-evident, that no man but Glenn Beck before him tend to one main thesis, no matter how outlandish supporting it becomes.

Beyond being objectively poorly made films that critics have called "too incoherent for an argument", they have also been labeled as "pseudo-history lessons" and "feature-length dog whistles".

All of those are cherry-picked from reviews of Hilary's America: The Secret History of The Democratic Party. One can argue about the various facts and obfuscations about the Clintons, the Trumps, and every other powerful family in America. Nine times out of ten, they're going to have some skeletons worth digging up.

When your propagandist documentary is literally able to be proven factually inaccurate by Wikipedia, you don't have a leg to stand on.