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.

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

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

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

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...

In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a “...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, invent...

In 1939, boy-wonder Orson Welles leaves New York, where he has succeeded in radio and theater, and, ...

Documentary short film produced by the U.S. Army, intended to enlighten the American public on the f...

Frenchman Abel Tiffauges is a naive man who lives a simple life working as a mechanic. Falsely accus...
Despite the bombs which he suffers from at the war front, war correspondent, Col. Heeza Liar succeed...

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