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Spain in Flames. 1937. 1937. The compilation film/newsreel was banned in a few states including Ohio and Pennsylvania, and multiple cities across the country including New Brunswick, New Jersey, Waterbury, Connecticut, and Provincetown, Massachusetts, due to the film's plot being reported as "harmful and tortured."
1941. Los afincaos ( The Sons of the Earth ) This film, based on the stageplay of the same name, had to insert a disclaimer at the start that the action of the film does not take place in Argentina, due to the pressure from the censors at the time. 1941.
World Wrestling Entertainment, then named the World Wrestling Federation, had a live taping scheduled for the upcoming episode of SmackDown! on September 11, 2001, however due to the events of September 11th, the taping was delayed until September 13, 2001, in Houston, Texas. The live episode of SmackDown was the first large public assembly ...
Film censorship in the United States. This scene from The Branding Iron (1920) was cut by the Pennsylvania film censorship board, which then banned the film for its topic of infidelity. [ 1] Film censorship in the United States was a frequent feature of the industry almost from the beginning of the U.S. motion picture industry until the end of ...
Here are 15 books PEN America says were most frequently banned in the first part of the 2022-23 school year. 1. “Gender Queer: A Memoir” by Maia Kobabe. This bestselling 2019 autobiography in ...
"Particularly in America, irony isn't a hugely popular thing, so maybe it just went over people's heads and all they saw was naked women," director Kevin Godley says of the controversial clip.
Frequency. annual. Banned Books Week is an annual awareness campaign promoted by the American Library Association and Amnesty International, that celebrates the freedom to read, [ 1] draws attention to banned and challenged books, [ 2] and highlights persecuted individuals. Held in late September or early October since 1982, the United States ...
List of films banned in the United States. Categories: Lists of films. Censored films. Blacklisting. Lists of banned works.