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.
What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...
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 ...
In March 1943, twenty-year-old Ovadia Baruch was deported together with his family from Greece to Au...
Nazi historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.
Drama set in the Second World War, focused on Jean Moulin, hero, martyr and symbol of the French res...
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of ...
Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is simila...
Shalom Italia tells the story of three brothers, who set off on a journey to find a cave in the wood...
Hitler no longer believes in himself, and can barely see himself as an equal to even his sheep dog. ...
Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came i...
After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist...
On a winter morning, a mother goes to waken her son Heinrich; his bed is empty. She leaves her flat ...
A squadron of American warplanes, armed with gas developed by Corsican chemist Gannimer (dubbed "Nap...
In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade c...
Nazi propaganda film about the Condor Legion, a unit of German "volunteers" who fought in the Spanis...
Two tourists meet and hang out in sunny Tel Aviv - but neither is quite who he says he is.
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is the...
On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the...