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.

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

Master filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) transforms a portrait of the world-renowned museum ...

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

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

A group of people are imprisoned in a rail car bound from Berlin to a concentration camp in 1945.


Nazi historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.

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

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...

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

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Baste...
A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the ...

The theatre 7:3 project was conducted at the Tidaholm prison 1998-1999. What started as an artistic ...

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

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

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

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

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

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