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The publication concerns a study of the development of film and TV manipulation of the society and public opinion in Czechoslovakia. There were three world wars between the beginning and the end of the century: two hot wars and a cold one. In them, propaganda played an increasingly important role. Since World War I, film has become an important tool for manipulation. Its photographic naturalism easily persuaded the audience to give them impression of being seen "with their own eyes". Higher technical quality of the image and new camera capabilities, allowing more imaginative and efficient shots in the middle of fights, potentiated the impact of manipulation. Film often showed a fiction portrayed as a fact. The cinematic sound further enhanced manipulative effects. The work focuses not only on feature film, but also documentary and animation, and follows selected television genres after the television broadcasting started, too. It also points to the influence of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, whose interests the domestic propaganda also served.