Forbidden Films - 2014 - 7/10
AKA - Verbotene Filme

Over 1000 films were made under the Nazis. Historicals, musicals, thrillers, and propaganda.
After World War II, 300 were officially banned. Today that number is around 40.
This documentary shows where they are stored, and how they are screened.
Viewing within Germany is still tightly controlled, although the resourceful can find ways.
A sampling are screened to audiences in France, Germany, Israel, and neo-Nazis.
(The latter discuss how banned films are still useful for indoctrinating the young.)
Propaganda ranges from anti-Communist, anti-British, antisemitic, rallying the troops.
The prints that the Murnau Foundation has are sharper than other Reichsfilme I have seen.
Apparently with subtitles, too. Half of those I have watched have none.
Is this worth watching? Yes.
The Santayana quote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” strikes me as only half true.
History does repeat - again and again.
Those who grasp the cycle, however, may better prepare for the inevitable.