Censorship Movies

A short animated film about censorship.

In the form of a gripping social thriller, Saeed Roustayi's "The Law of Tehran" (2019) offers a striking insight into the war declared on drug...

"Do you think I have a cute bottom?" From Brigitte Bardot's cult line in "Le Mépris" (Contempt), to Mireille Darc's iconic lower back, bottoms...

This short documentary explores how the Ilustrada section of the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper had to fight back against censorship from the military...

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...

A man tries to speak, but his mouth is covered. He then undresses and gestures with his hands, but they are tied. Next, he tries to dance a tango,...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Lifting the lid on the world of cinema censorship, this programme has unique access to the files of the British Board of Film Classification....

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...

Absolute blackness... the color that artists will see sooner than all the people on earth, because the artist is the color of his world, his writings...

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...

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...

Frank Zappa stopped by the Night Flight studios in 1985 to talk about music videos, censorship, the PMRC and what it's like to play in his band.

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