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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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...

Released in 1796 posthumously, The Nun, a novel that Diderot did not dream of publishing during his ...
A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the ...

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

A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.

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

When indie comic character Pepe the Frog becomes an unwitting icon of hate, his creator, artist Matt...

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