Between 1933 and 1945 roughly 1200 films were made in Germany, of which 300 were banned by the Allied forces. Today, around 40 films, called "Vorbehaltsfilme", are locked away from the public with an uncertain future. Should they be re-released, destroyed, or continue to be neglected? Verbotene Filme takes a closer look at some of these forbidden films.

On a winter morning, a mother goes to waken her son Heinrich; his bed is empty. She leaves her flat ...

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...
Chronicles combat action of Hitler's elite bodyguard regiment from 1940 to 1941. From Rotterdam to G...

In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade c...

Documentary produced by Falange and edited in Berlin, in response to the international success of th...

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

"Never Again?" seeks to educate others on the horrors and consequences of anti-Semitism. The film fo...

A Nazi propaganda movie from 1941 directed by Max W. Kimmich, covering a story of Irish heroism and ...

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

"Himmlers Kantele Player" - about Finnish student, who decides to leave University of Sorbonne and ...

Based on true events of the late 60s in Italy, poet, playwright and myrmecologist Aldo Braibanti is ...

Hitler's biography told like never before. Besides brief historical localizations by a narrator, onl...

Released in 1796 posthumously, The Nun, a novel that Diderot did not dream of publishing during his ...

A captivating and personal detective story that uncovers the truth behind the childhood of Michaël P...

The greatest secret of the Second World War has remained a mystery for the last 80 years: a Jewish C...

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

The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adven...

A Canadian artist turned diamond merchant in Vienna, Austria risks his life to smuggle Jews out of t...

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the...

A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.