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 group of people are imprisoned in a rail car bound from Berlin to a concentration camp in 1945.

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

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

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

Corrie and Betsie ten Boom are middle-aged sisters working in their father's watchmaker shop in pre-...

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 ...

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

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

On a winter morning, a mother goes to waken her son Heinrich; his bed is empty. She leaves her flat ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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