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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an undergr...

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

After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to ...

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

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

Italy, after the promulgation of the racial laws (1938). Luciano, a Fascist-abiding restaurateur, no...

Victor Klemperer (1881-1960), a professor of literature in Dresden, was Jewish; through the efforts ...
This is the highly acclaimed full length documentary about Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters and his co...

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

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

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

A Nazi propaganda movie from 1941 directed by Max W. Kimmich, covering a story of Irish heroism and ...

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