To do that, he turned to George Creel, who headed up the Committee on Public Information, and launched a massive propaganda campaign to sell the war. Filmmaker Amanda Pollak tells Creel’s story.

W. D. Stevens/Library of Congress. In 1917, on the brink of the U.S. entry into the Great War, a man named George Creel wrote a letter to President Woodrow Wilson. Creel was a journalist who had ...