Film Censorship Movies

Spain, 1970s. A Clockwork Orange, a film considered by critics and audiences as one of the best works in the history of cinema, directed by Stanley...

Argentina, 1968. In the midst of the Cold War, the dictatorship of Juan Carlos Onganía (1966-70) organizes the 9th Mar del Plata Film Festival...

In Spain, a poor country ruined by the recent Civil War (1936-39), and in the midst of Franco's dictatorship, a film school was created in Madrid in...

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

Resistance fighter under the occupation, committed to the FLN during the Algerian war, member of the Medvedkine group after May 1968 and defender of...

According to the official history of Afghanistan, ruthless destruction has always prevailed over art and creation; but there is another tale to be...

The amazing story of Cifesa, a mythical film production company founded in Valencia by the Casanova family that managed to dominate the box office...

In Maija Blåfield’s documentary, eight former North Koreans talk about what it was like to watch illegal films in a closed society. In...

Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo’s feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1965). Through archive images, extracts...

During a film shoot in Tehran the director is trying to film a romantic scene but the government censor keeps interrupting and getting involved.

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding of the Cinecittà studios and the successful...

A short documentary exploring the theatrical release of Just Jaeckin's Emmanuelle (1974) in Ontario, Canada, at the time of a major shift in its...

A feature-length documentary that tells the story of the Censorship of Films Act 1923 and how one canny term in that statute has allowed consecutive...

After a 25-year battle with Thai censorship, a filmmaker discusses the value of art in society.

In early 2000s Dhaka, a film journalist searches for a controversial B-list star in the chaos of a push to ban vulgar movies.