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 1945, as Stalin sets his hands over Poland, famous painter Wladislaw Strzeminski refuses to compr...
Inspired by the woman who edited "Man with a Movie Camera" (1929), "Woman with an Editing Bench" rev...
A 1944 propaganda short film produced for the U.S. Treasury Department and intended to boost war bon...
Based on a true story of inmates at KZ Buchenwald that risked their lives to hide a small Jewish boy...
The film expresses the history of oppression, discrimination, violence and hate in America. It was ...
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 ...
If you’ve seen Top Gun or Transformers, you may have wondered: Does all of that military machinery o...
Nazi historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.
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A portrait of Peruvian Jorge Poholyrec, a 71-year-old pariah who is a defender of National Socialism...
In March 1943, twenty-year-old Ovadia Baruch was deported together with his family from Greece to Au...
In "Diana: The Mourning After" Christopher Hitchens sets out to examine the bogusness of "a nation's...
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Baste...
Shalom Italia tells the story of three brothers, who set off on a journey to find a cave in the wood...
A retrospective documentary about the groundbreaking horror series, Friday the 13th, featuring inter...
On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the...
Drama set in the Second World War, focused on Jean Moulin, hero, martyr and symbol of the French res...
The story of one of history’s most controversial entertainers, who beguiled audiences with his magic...
Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is simila...