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.

A group of people are imprisoned in a rail car bound from Berlin to a concentration camp in 1945.

Archival footage of an American Nazi rally that attracted 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden in ...

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

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

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

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

Italy, after the promulgation of the racial laws (1938). Luciano, a Fascist-abiding restaurateur, no...

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

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

After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist...
Every year, thousands of commercials are made that never reach our TV screens, deemed too shocking t...

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

Documentary film that follows Silvana Castro, a woman who works at the National Congress Library in ...

September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these...

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

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the...

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

After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to ...
Chronicles combat action of Hitler's elite bodyguard regiment from 1940 to 1941. From Rotterdam to G...

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Baste...