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.
For more than a decade, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, Adolf Hitler's right-hand man during the in...
On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the...
Mexico, March 2015. Carmen Aristegui, incorruptible journalist, has been fired from the radio statio...
The beautiful gay erotic superstar Johan Paulik is enthusiastically celebrated in this jam-packed co...
A Nazi propaganda movie from 1941 directed by Max W. Kimmich, covering a story of Irish heroism and ...
After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist...
The history of Bruguera, the most important comic publisher in Spain between the 1940s and the 1980s...
Italy, after the promulgation of the racial laws (1938). Luciano, a Fascist-abiding restaurateur, no...
Depicts the controversial double police murder, involving neo-nazism and a theatre project by one of...
The theatre 7:3 project was conducted at the Tidaholm prison 1998-1999. What started as an artistic ...
In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade c...
On a winter morning, a mother goes to waken her son Heinrich; his bed is empty. She leaves her flat ...
Controversy erupts over a New-Deal-era mural of the namesake of San Francisco’s George Washington Hi...
OBAIDA, a short film by Matthew Cassel, explores a Palestinian child’s experience of Israeli militar...
A documentary-essay which shows Costică Axinte's stunning collection of pictures depicting a Romania...
The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adven...
A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.
Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last ...
Every year, thousands of commercials are made that never reach our TV screens, deemed too shocking t...
After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to ...