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.
The film accompanies the investigation of the historian Sidney Aguilar after the discovery of bricks...
Nazi historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.
Berlin in the Olympic summer 1936. A Nazi propaganda film and a portrait in colour of the early 20th...
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...
In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an undergr...
An essay film by filmmaker and archivist Sari Braithwaite, [Censored] offers an overview of film cen...
Chronicles the adventurous life of Hungarian-born Jewish lawyer Benjamin Ferencz, who fled to the US...
A dramatic documentary film that deals with the Nazi rise to power in Germany in the 1930s and the d...
Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, invent...
A new look at the public and private life of one of the most important statesmen in the history of E...
The love between Mateusz Krol, a Kashubian boy, and Marita von Krauss, a Prussian aristocrat in whos...
Spain, 1975. Franco's death opens the door to the possibility of uncensored cinema. After two years ...
From 1929 to 1939 Edgar Feuchtwanger lived across the street from Adolf Hitler in Munich Germany Fro...
A group of people are imprisoned in a rail car bound from Berlin to a concentration camp in 1945.
Drama set in the Second World War, focused on Jean Moulin, hero, martyr and symbol of the French res...
How, in 1945, after the end of World War II and the fall of the Nazi regime, the defeated were atroc...
The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.