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"Before winning an Academy Award as Best Documentary Short, the twenty-minute film [If You Love This Planet] was labeled as 'political propaganda' by the Reagan-era U.S. Department of Justice under the aegis of a 1930s era law. Copies of the film print shown in the United States were required to carry this warning label, creating a situation in which a documentary from the [National Film Board of Canada] was discussed as enemy propaganda."
-- Jack C. Ellis, Betsy A. McLane


Source:
Ellis, Jack C., and Betsy A. McLane A New History of Documentary Film. New York: Continuum, 2005. (p. 268)