Deeply researched, smartly written, and admirably capacious, this engaging book spans a century without losing site of the fascinating people, films, and ideas that have shaped Britain's view of itself and its place on the world stage. Scott Anthony brings both deep knowledge and a keen storyteller's eye to this vital story of film's enduring power to persuade. Let yourself be convinced that the history of British propaganda film is also an important history of Britain itself.

Brian R. Jacobson, California Institute of Technology, USA, and author of The Cinema of Extractions and Studios Before the System: Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space

Scott Anthony deftly weaves together the deep and pressing histories of the British state's use of media as a tool of governance shaping reality and conduct and affect against the backdrop of the political and economic transformation of that state and its place in the world. It is a brilliant expansive and readable and beautifully produced history of the deployment of mediated propaganda across time and space and amid too the radical transformations of the digital era. The Story of British Propaganda Film will be a very useful book.

Lee Grieveson, Professor of Media History, University College London, UK