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 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, ...

A sideshow barker uses magic and visual aids to alert the public that proper food management is both...

The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes ...

In Third Reich, the abuse of drugs made commanders and soldiers feel invincible. The Führer himself ...

The capture of Naples, the first great European city to be liberated, revealed the magnitude of the ...

The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adven...

A retrospective documentary about the groundbreaking horror series, Friday the 13th, featuring inter...

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

A key overview of twentieth-century American fascism and antifascism produced in 1991 by the John Br...
Chronicles combat action of Hitler's elite bodyguard regiment from 1940 to 1941. From Rotterdam to G...

Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is the...

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

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

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

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

A Bunch of Questions with No Answers (2025) is a 23-hour film by artists Alex Reynolds and Robert M....

Documentary produced by Falange and edited in Berlin, in response to the international success of th...

In Maija Blåfield’s documentary, eight former North Koreans talk about what it was like to watch ill...

At the end of the 1960s, when the air is filled with rock-and-roll and student rebellions are changi...