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.

Hitler no longer believes in himself, and can barely see himself as an equal to even his sheep dog. ...

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

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

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last ...

Victor Klemperer (1881-1960), a professor of literature in Dresden, was Jewish; through the efforts ...

In 1943, the Imperial Japanese Secret Service made a film called Calling Australia! to show the "exe...

OBAIDA, a short film by Matthew Cassel, explores a Palestinian child’s experience of Israeli militar...

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

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

Italy, after the promulgation of the racial laws (1938). Luciano, a Fascist-abiding restaurateur, no...

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

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

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

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

"Never Again?" seeks to educate others on the horrors and consequences of anti-Semitism. The film fo...
Chronicles combat action of Hitler's elite bodyguard regiment from 1940 to 1941. From Rotterdam to G...

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

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

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

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