Censorship Movies

The history of film and video censorship in Great Britain.

OBAIDA, a short film by Matthew Cassel, explores a Palestinian child’s experience of Israeli military arrest. Each year, some 700 Palestinian...

Lifting the lid on the world of cinema censorship, this programme has unique access to the files of the British Board of Film Classification....

A documentary analyzing the furore which so-called "video nasties" caused in Britain during the 1980s.

A documentary primarily focusing on the filming and release of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

The owner of a dangerous music venue discusses and showcases his work in a news report from a culturally dystopian future.

Controversy erupts over a New-Deal-era mural of the namesake of San Francisco’s George Washington High School. The thirteen-panel artwork "The...

A deep dive into the hidden industry of digital cleaning, which rids the Internet of unwanted violence, porn and political content.

The series tells the story of the São Paulo International Film Festival, one of the most traditional cultural events in Latin America. For 48...

A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the teens and early 1920s in America.

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...

The screening of a movie "Daybreak" at the "Liberty" Cinema is interrupted by an unusual event - actors come to life on the screen, start...

Italy, 1970. An increasing legion of harmless warriors begins a peaceful struggle for sexual freedom through pornography, shaking and shocking...

When an American filmmaker is commissioned to make a film for a Middle East Biennial on the theme of 'art as a subversive act,' his film is banned...

The story of a group of actresses who, in the Spain of the seventies, and in the midst of the democratic Transition, decided to appear nude in the...

Documentary film that follows Silvana Castro, a woman who works at the National Congress Library in Argentina where the books that were forbidden...

What was the role of women in Spanish cinema from the 1930s to the present explained through fragments of different films, both fiction and...

A yellow cab is driving through the vibrant and colourful streets of Tehran. Very diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their...

The history of Bruguera, the most important comic publisher in Spain between the 1940s and the 1980s. How the characters created by great writers and...

When chaos reigns, while barbaric and fanatical rulers, both ecclesiastical and secular, systematically burn entire libraries, book hunters, secret...