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.
Nazi historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.
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...
Syndrome K is the true story about a highly contagious, highly fictitious disease created by three R...
After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to ...
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is the...
It’s the last dictatorship of Europe, caught in a Soviet time-warp, where the secret police is still...
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Baste...
In 1935, German scientists dug for bones; in 1943, they murdered to get them. How the German scienti...
A retrospective documentary about the groundbreaking horror series, Friday the 13th, featuring inter...
In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade c...
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of ...
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 ...
Nazi occupied Poland, during the World War II. Hans, a former brilliant student, has become an SS of...
On a winter morning, a mother goes to waken her son Heinrich; his bed is empty. She leaves her flat ...
Over the past few years, Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated ...
Award-winning journalist Mobeen Azhar investigates music’s most troubling story. How did Kanye West ...
Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came i...
Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, invent...