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's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in...

A documentary about the rise of anti-Semitism in the USA after the terrorist attacks of September 11...

A sideshow barker uses magic and visual aids to alert the public that proper food management is both...

Master filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) transforms a portrait of the world-renowned museum ...

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

The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes ...

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

At the end of the 1960s, when the air is filled with rock-and-roll and student rebellions are changi...

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

The theatre 7:3 project was conducted at the Tidaholm prison 1998-1999. What started as an artistic ...

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

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

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

Nazi historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.

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

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

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

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.

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