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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."
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 ...
This film about a garment factory worker's 17-day fight to survive under the debris of Rana Plaza, a building that collapsed on 24 April 2013, was banned by the Bangladesh Film Censor Board due to a petition from the Bangladesh National Garment Workers League chief Sirajul Islam, as the movie featured scenes considered "frightening" as well the ...
2006. Amazing Grace is a biographical movie about the Abolitionist William Wilberforce 's campaign against the slave trade in the British Empire, and features the role of John Newton, the writer of the hymn Amazing Grace, in Wilberforce's campaign. Amistad. 1997.
The Motion Picture Production Code was a set of industry guidelines for the self-censorship of content that was applied to most motion pictures released by major studios in the United States from 1934 to 1968. It is also popularly known as the Hays Code, after Will H. Hays, president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America ...
Released in 1948 (Hong Kong) Released in 1950 (China) Banned in 1950. Zhu Shilin. Shu Shi, Zhou Xuan, Tang Ruojing, Hong Bo. The film was made by Hong Kong Wing Wah Pictures in December 1948 and started to be screened in Beijing and Shanghai in March 1950, but was banned on May 3, 1950, because Mao Zedong called it a "traitorous film.
Film censorship. Anders als die Andern, one of the most notable banned movies in Germany due to homosexual themes. Film censorship is the censorship of motion pictures, either through the excising of certain frames or scenes, or outright banning of films in their entirety. Film censorship typically occurs as a result of political or moral ...
"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.