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.

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Documentary film that follows Silvana Castro, a woman who works at the National Congress Library in ...
A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the ...

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

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

This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect ...

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

The film will tell the story of the campaign of antisemitism waged by automotive pioneer Henry Ford ...

The greatest secret of the Second World War has remained a mystery for the last 80 years: a Jewish C...

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

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

A Nazi propaganda movie from 1941 directed by Max W. Kimmich, covering a story of Irish heroism and ...
Despite the bombs which he suffers from at the war front, war correspondent, Col. Heeza Liar succeed...

The nephew of a Republican exiled during the Spanish Civil War is pushed to discover the fate of his...