A secret trove of propaganda films has recently been discovered in Denmark – 35mm and 16mm shorts and features from the Vietnam war – from both American and North Vietnamese perspectives. Often graphic and brutal but at times also sober and informative and even unintentionally poetic, they focus on everything from captured American pilots to Vietnamese women on the frontlines of combat to the effects of bombing campaigns on the countryside. They contain shocking & hard-hitting images and survive as raw unapologetic propaganda – as tools of war as important as guns and bullets. These are not even-handed documentary films seeking objective dispassionate truth via charts, graphs, interviews and talking heads, they are emotional products of war, intended to shock. This was not a debate and not a history lesson – this was life and death at the moment of impact.