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.

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

Released in 1796 posthumously, The Nun, a novel that Diderot did not dream of publishing during his ...
A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the ...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

Corrie and Betsie ten Boom are middle-aged sisters working in their father's watchmaker shop in pre-...