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.

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A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade c...
Chronicles combat action of Hitler's elite bodyguard regiment from 1940 to 1941. From Rotterdam to G...

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...

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

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

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

A key overview of twentieth-century American fascism and antifascism produced in 1991 by the John Br...