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.

This documentary features candid studio conversations with people of diverse backgrounds from the Er...

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

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

Groundbreaking psychiatrist and author Elisabeth Kübler-Ross dedicated her career to working with th...
The Sailor and the Seagull was released by the U.S. Navy in 1949 with a simple goal: encouraging ser...

In this drama, an American art student is trapped amidst the political turmoil of war-torn Europe wh...

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

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

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

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

The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar...
Chronicles combat action of Hitler's elite bodyguard regiment from 1940 to 1941. From Rotterdam to G...

A retrospective documentary about the groundbreaking horror series, Friday the 13th, featuring inter...

Brecht's play Fear and Misery of the Third Reich consists of a series of playlets, portraying Nation...

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

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

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

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

Among the millions of victims of the Nazi madness during the Second World War, Pierre Seel was charg...