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.

Hitler's biography told like never before. Besides brief historical localizations by a narrator, onl...

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

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

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...

This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect ...

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

Nazi historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.
With her slap of the Federal Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger in 1968, Beate Klarsfeld abruptly got k...

In Third Reich, the abuse of drugs made commanders and soldiers feel invincible. The Führer himself ...

A sideshow barker uses magic and visual aids to alert the public that proper food management is both...

The capture of Naples, the first great European city to be liberated, revealed the magnitude of the ...

Master filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) transforms a portrait of the world-renowned museum ...


A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in...

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

Brecht's play Fear and Misery of the Third Reich consists of a series of playlets, portraying Nation...

The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar...

This documentary features candid studio conversations with people of diverse backgrounds from the Er...