Movies: Censorship
- 2024
Viva o Cinema! Uma História da Mostra de São Paulo (2024)
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The series tells the story of the São Paulo International Film Festival, one of the most traditional cultural events in Latin America. For 48 years, the festival has showcased hundreds of films from all over the world, bringing vibrancy to the city. ...
- 2014
Forbidden Films (2014)
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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...
- 2014
Diagram for Delinquents (2014)
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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 ...
- 1990
Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema (1990)
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The screening of a movie "Daybreak" at the "Liberty" Cinema is interrupted by an unusual event - actors come to life on the screen, start conversations among themselves, draw the audience into them. Crowds gather around the cinema, the relevant autho...
- 2010
Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape (2010)
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A documentary analyzing the furore which so-called "video nasties" caused in Britain during the 1980s....
- 2021
The Emma Bovary Trial (2021)
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On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for contempt of public morality and religion. The accused, the real one, is, through him, Emma Bovary, heroine with a thousand faces and a thousand desires, ...
- 2018
The Cleaners (2018)
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A deep dive into the hidden industry of digital cleaning, which rids the Internet of unwanted violence, porn and political content....
- 2013
Project Censored the Movie (2013)
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'Project Censored: The Movie' explores media censorship in our society by exposing important stories that corporate media fails to report/under report. Using the media watchdog group, Project Censored, as their road map, two fathers from California d...
- 2017
Book Hunters (2017)
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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...
- 2009
In the Lost City (2009)
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The city of Madrid as it appears in the Spanish films of the 1950s. A small tribute to all those who filmed and portrayed Madrid despite the dictatorship, censorship and the critical situation of industry and society....
- 2021
Radio Silence (2021)
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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...
- 2023
Cover Your Ears (2023)
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When does art become obscenity? Cover Your Ears takes a close look at this question through the lens of the past 100 years of music and the ever-evolving discussion of legal and moral lines in the industry...
- 2002
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (2002)
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The history of the irreverent "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" and the content battles it fought with its television network....
- 1999
Censored! (1999)
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A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the teens and early 1920s in America....
- 1987
Impressões do Brasil (1987)
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"Impressões" rescues the history of the Brazilian press since 1808, when the "Correio Brasiliense" clandestinely reached Rio de Janeiro after being edited in London by Hipólito José da Costa, and spans until 1986. It's the first documentary to depict...
- 1971
Career (1971)
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Günter Walcher, 40-years-old, is a hardworking, apolitical West German businessman caught in a moral conflict. He is offered a promotion to become the head of a division—on the condition that he find a reason to fire Zacharias, a communist and the wo...
- 2018
Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman (2018)
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The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and Fate (1980), a literary masterpiece, a monumental and epic account of life under Stalin's regime of terror, a defiant cry that the KGB tried to suffoc...
- 1998
Princess Diana: The Mourning After (1998)
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In "Diana: The Mourning After" Christopher Hitchens sets out to examine the bogusness of "a nation's grief", tries to uncover the few voices of sanity that cut against the grain of contrived hysteria. His findings suggested that the collective hordes...
- 2022
Town Destroyer (2022)
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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,...
- 1966
Love Stories of the Pale Night (1966)
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A man living between dream and reality, making the woman he fell in love with as a statue and falling in love with her and then killing her in his dreams....