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.

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

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

Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two ...

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...

Victor Klemperer (1881-1960), a professor of literature in Dresden, was Jewish; through the efforts ...

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

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

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

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

A documentary-essay which shows Costică Axinte's stunning collection of pictures depicting a Romania...

Depicts the controversial double police murder, involving neo-nazism and a theatre project by one of...

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

When indie comic character Pepe the Frog becomes an unwitting icon of hate, his creator, artist Matt...
A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the ...

The theatre 7:3 project was conducted at the Tidaholm prison 1998-1999. What started as an artistic ...

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

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

In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a “...

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

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