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.

The beautiful gay erotic superstar Johan Paulik is enthusiastically celebrated in this jam-packed co...

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

The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar...

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

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

In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, ...

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Baste...


Archival footage of an American Nazi rally that attracted 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden in ...

Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is the...

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

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

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist...

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...

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

In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an undergr...

Based on a true story of inmates at KZ Buchenwald that risked their lives to hide a small Jewish boy...

This documentary features candid studio conversations with people of diverse backgrounds from the Er...

Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two ...