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.

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...

"Never Again?" seeks to educate others on the horrors and consequences of anti-Semitism. The film fo...

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

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

"Himmlers Kantele Player" - about Finnish student, who decides to leave University of Sorbonne and ...

The greatest secret of the Second World War has remained a mystery for the last 80 years: a Jewish C...

The beautiful gay erotic superstar Johan Paulik is enthusiastically celebrated in this jam-packed co...

Based on true events of the late 60s in Italy, poet, playwright and myrmecologist Aldo Braibanti is ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

A Canadian artist turned diamond merchant in Vienna, Austria risks his life to smuggle Jews out of t...

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 ...
A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the ...