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.

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

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

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

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

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

When indie comic character Pepe the Frog becomes an unwitting icon of hate, his creator, artist Matt...

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

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

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

This film records the Japanese military's efforts to capture the Burma Road,one of the major supply ...

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

A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War 2.

There was an undeclared war for nearly half a century in Bulgaria between the then government and th...

On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for con...

It was a foundational myth of the GDR that it was anti-fascist and free of Nazis. But was that reall...

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

Explores Leni Riefenstahl's artistic legacy and her complex ties to the Nazi regime, juxtaposing her...

The story of iconic Spanish artist Susana Estrada's struggle against censorship and sexual repressio...

January 1953: On the eve of his death Stalin finds himself yet another imaginary enemy: Jewish docto...

A documentary about the Staatsoper Stuttgart (Stuttgart State Opera) in Germany.