Wikipedia has a list of films banned over the years, organized by country.
There were the predictable - China banned Seven Years In Tibet (and actor Brad Pitt for being in it), Chaplin’s The Great Dictator was banned in Germany from 1939-45 and one called Cannibal Holocaust appeared on quite a few lists, cited as ‘extremely disturbing’.
But who would have thought the Irish would ban Monty Python’s Life of Brian? In 1916 the province of Manitoba, Canada banned ALL comedies (this was later lifted but apparently nobody told them because it’s still a horrible horrible place something like Nebraska but duller). Malaysia had the longest list, mostly for horror or violence but also banned there is the lovable story of Babe the pig. No mention of Charlotte’s Web which also features a talking pig and a spider who may have been a witch. Australia banned King Kong, Frankenstein and Dracula in 1942 and, inexplicably, Reefer Madness the notorious anti-marijuana film. Iran sensibly banned Saturday Night Fever, while Sweden un-sensibly banned Mad Max, as did New Zealand. Thailand banned three different versions of The King And I.
Japan and Italy banned the fewest films and Denmark only banned one, in 1937. I don't know what it was about, but apparantly it pissed off the Danes and that's saying something. They're all nuts, well Hamlet was and he was of them. When dinner parties end with everyone dying in a poison-soaked sword fight nobody's worried about talking pigs.
There were the predictable - China banned Seven Years In Tibet (and actor Brad Pitt for being in it), Chaplin’s The Great Dictator was banned in Germany from 1939-45 and one called Cannibal Holocaust appeared on quite a few lists, cited as ‘extremely disturbing’.
But who would have thought the Irish would ban Monty Python’s Life of Brian? In 1916 the province of Manitoba, Canada banned ALL comedies (this was later lifted but apparently nobody told them because it’s still a horrible horrible place something like Nebraska but duller). Malaysia had the longest list, mostly for horror or violence but also banned there is the lovable story of Babe the pig. No mention of Charlotte’s Web which also features a talking pig and a spider who may have been a witch. Australia banned King Kong, Frankenstein and Dracula in 1942 and, inexplicably, Reefer Madness the notorious anti-marijuana film. Iran sensibly banned Saturday Night Fever, while Sweden un-sensibly banned Mad Max, as did New Zealand. Thailand banned three different versions of The King And I.
Japan and Italy banned the fewest films and Denmark only banned one, in 1937. I don't know what it was about, but apparantly it pissed off the Danes and that's saying something. They're all nuts, well Hamlet was and he was of them. When dinner parties end with everyone dying in a poison-soaked sword fight nobody's worried about talking pigs.
Yeah. That.
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