I’m very surprised that there was an image at all. Usually, these articles about movies, clothing, art, or geography don’t have a single picture, even though what they are discussing is inherently graphical. I suspect that it’s because people who read these articles don’t care, because they don’t read them to become actually informed, they read them simply to feel smarter.
Same with majority of "X million passwords leaked" articles. They were never leaked, somebody stole them. You cannot download them.
I know people talk highly about the Soviet directors, but aren't the early ones basically propagandists?
Well, Eisenstein[1] comes to mind, I don't think it'd be fair to call his work only propaganda, even if some of it has those overtones.
The Bolsheviks and (to a lesser extent) the Nazis had plenty of good art that also saved as propaganda for the most despicable causes. You can appreciate Eisenstein or Harlan as great directors without thinking them to be fine human beings. Of course beyond art that is purely formally fascinating, there is a tension between artistic quality and serving a narrow propagandist agenda, and personally I find Battleship Potemkin utterly dull and overrated. But the best films these directors created in the service of totalitarianism transcend this narrowness: try Ivan the Terrible, for the example.
Are today's films about the US army, intelligence and police not propaganda?