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 man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in...

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

Documentary directed by W.K. Border, that which dives into the aspects of contemporary Gothic subcul...

Archival footage of an American Nazi rally that attracted 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden in ...

The capture of Naples, the first great European city to be liberated, revealed the magnitude of the ...

Master filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) transforms a portrait of the world-renowned museum ...
Every year, thousands of commercials are made that never reach our TV screens, deemed too shocking t...

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

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

"Never Again?" seeks to educate others on the horrors and consequences of anti-Semitism. The film fo...

In Maija Blåfield’s documentary, eight former North Koreans talk about what it was like to watch ill...

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Baste...

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...

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

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

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.

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