Censorship Movies

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...

Based on true events of the late 60s in Italy, poet, playwright and myrmecologist Aldo Braibanti is prosecuted and sentenced to prison for the love...

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

A documentary about the making of the controversial Life of Brian and the surrounding accusations of blasphemy.

In recent years, more than 2,500 books have been removed from school districts around the US, labeled as banned, restricted, or challenged, and made...

The Humorist is a film about a week in the life of Boris Arkadiev, a fictional Soviet stand-up comedian. Boris is tormented not only by external...

Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines...

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

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

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...

If you’ve seen Top Gun or Transformers, you may have wondered: Does all of that military machinery on screen come with strings attached? Does...

'Project Censored: The Movie' explores media censorship in our society by exposing important stories that corporate media fails to report/under...

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...

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

The Lecturer, leader of the Feminine League Against Frivolity, tells the history of eroticism and censorship from the beginning of time until the...

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

Peer through the lens of a high profile political dissident, banished from the online world. After introducing the viewer to each of the five...

Inspired by the woman who edited "Man with a Movie Camera" (1929), "Woman with an Editing Bench" reveals the personal impact of Stalin’s...

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

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