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 ...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

A key overview of twentieth-century American fascism and antifascism produced in 1991 by the John Br...

A documentary-essay which shows Costică Axinte's stunning collection of pictures depicting a Romania...

Depicts the controversial double police murder, involving neo-nazism and a theatre project by one of...

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

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

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

The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adven...

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...

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