Censorship Movies

An autobiographical docu-drama that chronicles the filmmaker's struggle with narrow minded authorities, critics, and personal tragedy.

A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934.

The people of Antiquity had little problem with nudity and would not find graphic depictions of sexual acts as morally suspect or obscene. But...

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 sex education film dedicated to all forms of human sexuality.

Through the conversation with Yugoslav film authors and excerpts from their films, this documentary film tells a story of a film phenomenon and...

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 documentary about the Staatsoper Stuttgart (Stuttgart State Opera) in Germany.

Spain, 1975. Franco's death opens the door to the possibility of uncensored cinema. After two years of relaxed censorship, it is abolished in 1977,...

A satirical film portraying a government censorship committee struggling to define on what grounds a critical film should be censored.

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

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

The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and Fate (1980), a literary masterpiece, a monumental...

Fed up with being censored in their post-Trailer Park Boys lives, the out of work stars/world-renowned 'swearists', Mike Smith, Robb Wells and John...

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...

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...

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

Set 18 months after movie "Library Wars." After the government's enactment of the Media Betterment Act, battles wage between the Betterment Squads...

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

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