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.

A man living between dream and reality, making the woman he fell in love with as a statue and fallin...
The Sailor and the Seagull was released by the U.S. Navy in 1949 with a simple goal: encouraging ser...

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...
A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the ...

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

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

After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to ...

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

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

In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a “...

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.

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

September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these...

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

When indie comic character Pepe the Frog becomes an unwitting icon of hate, his creator, artist Matt...

A documentary-essay which shows Costică Axinte's stunning collection of pictures depicting a Romania...

Depicts the controversial double police murder, involving neo-nazism and a theatre project by one of...

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