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| Introduction |
| 1 | Introduction to propaganda |
| Photography as a means to raise awareness |
| 2 | Southworth and Hawes: The Branded Hand of Captain Jonathan Walker |
| American Civil War (1861-1865) |
| 3 | Propaganda during the American Civil War (1861-1865) |
| 4 | A.C. Kline: Jeff Davis "taking" Washington |
| 5 | The scourged back |
| 6 | Emancipated slaves in the USA |
| Paris Commune (1871) |
| 7 | Photomontage during the Paris Commune (1871) |
| First World War (1914-1918) |
| 8 | Propaganda during the First World War (1914-1918) |
| 9 | U.S. Army: Analysis of why photographs were censored during the First World War (1926) |
| 1930s |
| 10 | Arthur Rothstein: Cow skull in the Badlands |
| 11 | Portugal 1934: Photomontage as propaganda |
| 12 | The alteration of the truth in Soviet Russia |
| 13 | El Lissitzky (Graphic design and photomontages): Album dedicated to the 15th anniversary of the creation of the RKKA - Russian: Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (1934) |
| 14 | John Heartfield: Political photomontages |
| 15 | Alexander Zhitomirsky: Political photomontages |
| 16 | AIZ - Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung |
| 17 | Marinus: Anti-Nazi political photomontage in France |
| 18 | Hoshino Tatsuo (ed): Shina Jihen Shashin Zenshu (1937-1940) |
| Leni Riefenstahl and the creation of myth |
| 19 | Leni Riefenstahl: The creation of the myths of National Socialism |
| 20 | Leni Riefenstahl: Day of Freedom (1935) |
| 21 | Leni Riefenstahl: Triumph of the Will (1935) |
| Second World War (1939-1945) |
| 22 | The photographic portrayal of Adolf Hitler |
| 23 | Heinrich Hoffmann: Portraits of Adolf Hitler |
| 24 | Adolf Hitler - Nazi propaganda series |
| 25 | Heinrich Hoffmann (Editor) & Josef Bürckel (Foreword): Hitler holt die Saar heim (1938) |
| 26 | A question of emotional interpretation: People of Cheb salute the German troops entering the town in the Anschluss of the Sudetenland (October 1938) |
| 27 | Otto Schönstein (Raumbild Albums): Vienna, the pearl of the Reich (1941) |
| 28 | Winston Churchill - Wanted for incitement to Murder |
| 29 | Teresa Zarnower: Obrona Warszawy - The defense of Warsaw (1942-1945) |
| 30 | Walker Evans: Alabama, Greensboro |
| 31 | United States. Office of Facts and Figures.: This man is your friend - He fights for Freedom (1942) |
| 32 | SSgt Louis R. Lowery: First Flag Raising on Iwo Jima (23 February 1945) |
| 33 | Joe Rosenthal: Flag raising at Iwo Jima (23 February 1945) |
| 34 | Yevgeny Khaldei: Soldiers raising the flag of Soviet Union on the roof of Reichstag building in Berlin (2 May 1945) |
| China |
| 35 | Propaganda in Communist China |
| Falklands War |
| 36 | Falklands War / Malvinas War (1982): The Sinking of the ARA General Belgrano |
| Iraq War (2003-2011) |
| 37 | Justification for the Iraq War (2003-2011) |
| 38 | Iraq War (2003-2011): Abu Ghraib |
| Propaganda and American politicians |
| 39 | Donald Trump |
| 40 | Ivanka Trump - #UnwantedIvanka |
| Conclusions |
| 41 | Conclusions on propaganda |