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Local website Cinemocracy has redesigned and launched a cool new service: video-on-demand of selected classic (or at least old) "politically relevant" films, free of charge in MPEG2 format. The first series is "American Propaganda," featuring government-produced World War II films by John Ford, John Huston, William Wyler and Frank Capra. "After Ford's The Battle of Midway screened at the White House in 1942, President Roosevelt famously declared, 'I want every mother in America to see this picture,'” the site says. Cinemocracy's Eric Spiegelman emails, "we are able to offer these movies for free thanks to a deal reached with the Internet Archive, who is hosting them for us gratis." Cinemocracy's blog also continues.
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