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.
Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during...
Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film wa...
France, 1897. Colonel Georges Picquart challenges the French government when he discovers the obscur...
Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two ...
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of ...
A short animated War Office commissioned health education film, showing the fate of each of the 6 ju...
After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to ...
It was a foundational myth of the GDR that it was anti-fascist and free of Nazis. But was that reall...
In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an undergr...
A Canadian artist turned diamond merchant in Vienna, Austria risks his life to smuggle Jews out of t...
The doltish but self-confident and self-congratulatory Private Snafu is in possession of a military ...
Based on a true story of inmates at KZ Buchenwald that risked their lives to hide a small Jewish boy...
An account of Adolf Hitler's rise and fall, his relationship with Eva Braun and their days of leisur...
What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...
A vulture, a gorilla and a hyena (“with no small resemblances to actual dictators”) bully the woodla...
During World War Two, Daffy Duck owns a junkyard which collects scrap metal to use in building weapo...
This exclusive documentary recounts the crazy project of Nazi Germany which secretly gave birth to A...
A new look at the public and private life of one of the most important statesmen in the history of E...
On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for con...
The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.