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

On a winter morning, a mother goes to waken her son Heinrich; his bed is empty. She leaves her flat ...

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

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

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 ...

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

September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these...

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

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

This film records the Japanese military's efforts to capture the Burma Road,one of the major supply ...

After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist...

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

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

Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is the...

The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar...

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

Documentary produced by Falange and edited in Berlin, in response to the international success of th...

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

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