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

In Third Reich, the abuse of drugs made commanders and soldiers feel invincible. The Führer himself ...
Every year, thousands of commercials are made that never reach our TV screens, deemed too shocking t...

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

The history of Bruguera, the most important comic publisher in Spain between the 1940s and the 1980s...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the...