Lifting the lid on the world of cinema censorship, this programme has unique access to the files of the British Board of Film Classification. Featuring explicit and detailed exchanges between the censor and film-makers, 'Dear Censor' casts a wry eye over some of the most infamous cases in the history of the board. From the now seemingly innocuous Rebel Without a Cause, the first 'naturist' films and the infamous works of Ken Russell, and up to Rambo III, this frank and surprisingly warm documentary demonstrates how a body created by the industry to safeguard standards and reflect shifts in public opinion has also worked unexpectedly closely with the film-makers themselves to ensure that their work was able reach an audience.

At the end of the 1960s, when the air is filled with rock-and-roll and student rebellions are changi...

In Maija Blåfield’s documentary, eight former North Koreans talk about what it was like to watch ill...

A retrospective documentary about the groundbreaking horror series, Friday the 13th, featuring inter...

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On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for con...

A deep dive into the hidden industry of digital cleaning, which rids the Internet of unwanted violen...

Between 1933 and 1945 roughly 1200 films were made in Germany, of which 300 were banned by the Allie...

Documentary film that follows Silvana Castro, a woman who works at the National Congress Library in ...

A man living between dream and reality, making the woman he fell in love with as a statue and fallin...

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If you’ve seen Top Gun or Transformers, you may have wondered: Does all of that military machinery o...

In 1950, America was in a state of panic. Juvenile delinquency was destroying the very fabric of soc...

A documentary about the Staatsoper Stuttgart (Stuttgart State Opera) in Germany.

The story of iconic Spanish artist Susana Estrada's struggle against censorship and sexual repressio...

When a small Utah-based edited movie company is caught sanitizing Hollywood's copyrighted material, ...
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An essay film by filmmaker and archivist Sari Braithwaite, [Censored] offers an overview of film cen...

There was an undeclared war for nearly half a century in Bulgaria between the then government and th...

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After a YouTube video in which he claimed that Bluetooth attracts bees was blocked for misinformatio...