Desire and Censorship
Censorship issues with the film "A Streetcar Named Desire."
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Censorship issues with the film "A Streetcar Named Desire."
Through the conversation with Yugoslav film authors and excerpts from their films, this documentary film tells a story of a film phenomenon and censorship, and its focus is, in fact, a painful epoch of Yugoslav film call
Rare documentary about Video Nasties and film, video and internet censorship in the UK. Was first screened as part of Channel 4's controversial "Banned Weekend" which focused on films and the so called Video Nasties, whi
This thought-provoking documentary explores how the Chinese government limits freedom in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Through extraordinary cases from the arrest of Beijing-based artist HUA Yong and the disappearances of five b
Director Pete Walker reflects upon his career making b-movies in the UK during the 1960's & 70's. Starting with sexploitation quickies and eventually evolving into what he calls "terror" thrillers in order to give audien
A documentary abut the making of the Constitution.
A satirical short produced to highlight the unreasonable extremes of local film censorship—a film so heavily censored that only the title cards remain!
After being delayed for a few months because of a 18+ rating due to its extreme violence, the French horror thriller Martyrs was finally released a few months later in the local theaters, with a 16+ rating with warning.
A documentary analyzing the furore which so-called "video nasties" caused in Britain during the 1980s.
Shows the relationship of the Constitution to the issue of prior restraint on freedom of expression. Presents the case of Burstyn v. Wilson challenging the constitutionality of New York State's film censorship system and
Traces the bitter and often spirited battle over the morality and censorship of movies from the birth of the motion picture industry in the early 1900s. Describes how early censorship was local and how the original Holly
A summary of the anti-censorship dialogue which supported Vancouver store Little Sisters' ten year challenge to homophobic bureaucracy.
A young college student researches sexual deviancy by placing ads in underground newspapers.
Newswoman Fay Sommerfield takes a morally outraged look at excessive violence, bad language and sacrilege that pass for entertainment in the early 90s. She illustrates this with clips from (fake) current hit films and mu
A look at the rapidly evolving issue of sex censorship in the USA, focusing on the period just as hardcore was just about to become accepted.
Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines the rampant sexuality of early Hollywood through movie clips and remini
A look at The Hays Code and the methods used by film artists, actors, directors to work with, work around and even subvert the intent of The Hays Code, during a period of very socially repressive regimes in political and
The history of the irreverent "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" and the content battles it fought with its television network.
How does a satire comedy website find itself on the front lines of the debate over free speech online? Seth Dillon and his team at the Babylon Bee,tell the story of they unwittingly found themselves at war with Twitter o
In a 1993 art exhibit at the University of Saskatchewan, Christopher Lefler allegedly outed the Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan, Sylvia Fedoruk. Lefler's show was closed down, his art seized, his scholarship revoked,