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.

Italy, after the promulgation of the racial laws (1938). Luciano, a Fascist-abiding restaurateur, no...
Every year, thousands of commercials are made that never reach our TV screens, deemed too shocking t...

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

The history of Bruguera, the most important comic publisher in Spain between the 1940s and the 1980s...

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

A documentary-essay which shows Costică Axinte's stunning collection of pictures depicting a Romania...

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

OBAIDA, a short film by Matthew Cassel, explores a Palestinian child’s experience of Israeli militar...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Released in 1796 posthumously, The Nun, a novel that Diderot did not dream of publishing during his ...

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