When governments, or other institutions, want to control what people think and say, they censor what people write and speak. The stories in this collection are about various forms of censorship.
After Adolf Hitler's rise, in Germany, he quickly consolidated his power base.
Kristallnacht begins in Germany on the 9th of November, 1938. What was it and why did it begin?
WARNING: THIS CLIP CONTAINS VIOLENT ACTIONS TAKEN AGAINST JEWISH PEOPLE IN NOVEMBER OF 1938.
WARNING: THIS CLIP CONTAINS VIOLENT ACTIONS TAKEN AGAINST JEWISH PEOPLE IN NOVEMBER OF 1938.
Great Britain was the only country to widely open its doors to German Jews.
Leni Riefenstahl made this documentary based on the Nazi Party Congress, held in Nuremberg during 1934.
Aboard the USS Panay, on the 12th of December 1937, was a Universal News cameraman who had covered World War I and was in China to report on the Japan...
During World War II, General Eisenhower ordered that all Nazi-Party documents should be confiscated as the Allies liberated Germany.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote a novel about what it was like to be a prisoner in a Stalinist forced-labor camp in Siberia's GULAG.
During the Stalinist era, future-Nobel-Laureate Solzhenitsyn was a prisoner in a forced labor camp.
Sir Thomas More - Henry VIII's great friend and advisor - ultimately fell out of favor when he refused to recognize the King as head of the newly form...
In 1957, the U.S. government - via the CIA - commissioned a documentary entitled "South Africa under Apartheid.
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