Movies: Censorship

  • 1995
    Empire of the Censors

    Empire of the Censors (1995)

    Empire of the Censors

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    The history of film and video censorship in Great Britain....

    Empire of the Censors
  • 2018
    Belarus: An Ordinary Dictatorship

    Belarus: An Ordinary Dictatorship (2018)

    Belarus: An Ordinary Dictatorship

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    It’s the last dictatorship of Europe, caught in a Soviet time-warp, where the secret police is still called the KGB and the president rules by fear. Disappearances, political assassinations, waves of repression and mass arrests are all regular occura...

    Belarus: An Ordinary Dictatorship
  • 2021
    Radio Silence

    Radio Silence (2021)

    Radio Silence

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    Mexico, March 2015. Carmen Aristegui, incorruptible journalist, has been fired from the radio station where she has worked for years. Supported by more than 18 million listeners, Carmen continues her fight. Her goal: raising awareness and fighting ag...

    Radio Silence
  • 2014
    Inverosímil Jardiel Poncela

    Inverosímil Jardiel Poncela (2014)

    Inverosímil Jardiel Poncela

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    The Spanish author Enrique Jardiel Poncela (1901-1952) was one of the best comedy writers of all time, a novelist and newspaper columnist, misunderstood, even censored, both by the Second Republic government and Francoism, an outsider ahead of his ti...

    Inverosímil Jardiel Poncela
  • 2016
    Manda huevos

    Manda huevos (2016)

    Manda huevos

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    A look at the different masculinities portrayed in Spanish cinema through time. (A sequel to “Barefoot in the Kitchen,” 2013.)...

    Manda huevos
  • 2014
    Forbidden Films

    Forbidden Films (2014)

    Forbidden Films

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    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, dest...

    Forbidden Films
  • 2019
    You Can’t Watch This

    You Can’t Watch This (2019)

    You Can’t Watch This

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    Peer through the lens of a high profile political dissident, banished from the online world. After introducing the viewer to each of the five characters, the film recounts how each individual then came to lose their access to social media and the aff...

    You Can’t Watch This
  • 2014
    More Dangerous Songs: And the Banned Played On

    More Dangerous Songs: And the Banned Played On (2014)

    More Dangerous Songs: And the Banned Played On

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    More Dangerous Songs: And the Banned Played On features previously banned songs by the BBC including "Lola" by the Kinks, "Jackie" by Scott Walker and "(We Don't Need this) Fascist Groove Thang" by Heaven 17....

    More Dangerous Songs: And the Banned Played On
  • 2016
    Porn to Be Free

    Porn to Be Free (2016)

    Porn to Be Free

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    Italy, 1970. An increasing legion of harmless warriors begins a peaceful struggle for sexual freedom through pornography, shaking and shocking religious authorities and conservative political institutions. They are ironic, happy, crazy. They are drea...

    Porn to Be Free
  • 2013
    Barefoot in the Kitchen

    Barefoot in the Kitchen (2013)

    Barefoot in the Kitchen

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    What was the role of women in Spanish cinema from the 1930s to the present explained through fragments of different films, both fiction and non-fiction. (Followed by “Manda huevos,” 2016.)...

    Barefoot in the Kitchen
  • 2019
    Obaida

    Obaida (2019)

    Obaida

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    OBAIDA, a short film by Matthew Cassel, explores a Palestinian child’s experience of Israeli military arrest. Each year, some 700 Palestinian children undergo military detention in a system where ill-treatment is widespread and institutionalized. Fo...

    Obaida
  • 2009
    Cleanflix

    Cleanflix (2009)

    Cleanflix

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    When a small Utah-based edited movie company is caught sanitizing Hollywood's copyrighted material, the film industry strikes back with a devastating blow....

    Cleanflix
  • 2014
    Diagram for Delinquents

    Diagram for Delinquents (2014)

    Diagram for Delinquents

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    In 1950, America was in a state of panic. Juvenile delinquency was destroying the very fabric of society. Ninety percent of all children were reading comic books. In 1954, psychiatrist Dr. Fredric Wertham wrote a scathing indictment of comics called ...

    Diagram for Delinquents
  • 2017
    Book Hunters

    Book Hunters (2017)

    Book Hunters

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    When chaos reigns, while barbaric and fanatical rulers, both ecclesiastical and secular, systematically burn entire libraries, book hunters, secret heroes of history, travel the world saving and copying texts, threatened by the madness of censors, wi...

    Book Hunters
  • 2024
    To Be Destroyed

    To Be Destroyed (2024)

    To Be Destroyed

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    A 30-minute documentary on book banning and censorship that follows author Dave Eggers as he investigates why a Rapid City, SD school board wanted to ban his book....

    To Be Destroyed
  • 2012
    The Sheik and I

    The Sheik and I (2012)

    The Sheik and I

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    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 for blasphemy, he is asked to destroy every copy, and threatened with arrest....

    The Sheik and I
  • 2016
    Woman with an Editing Bench

    Woman with an Editing Bench (2016)

    Woman with an Editing Bench

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    Inspired by the woman who edited "Man with a Movie Camera" (1929), "Woman with an Editing Bench" reveals the personal impact of Stalin’s censorship of cinema on a woman navigating politics, bureaucracy and the impetuous outbursts of collaborators to ...

    Woman with an Editing Bench
  • 2022
    Uncensored Women

    Uncensored Women (2022)

    Uncensored Women

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    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 films of that time of radical political change, defying the rigid and deeply rooted social rules....

    Uncensored Women
  • 2010
    Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape

    Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape (2010)

    Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape

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

    Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape
  • 2022
    Town Destroyer

    Town Destroyer (2022)

    Town Destroyer

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    Controversy erupts over a New-Deal-era mural of the namesake of San Francisco’s George Washington High School. The thirteen-panel artwork "The Life of Washington" by Victor Arnautoff offers a view of the Founding Father both celebratory and critical,...

    Town Destroyer