70 Years Ago Today, This Controversial War Film Was Censored and Forced Out of Cannes, Now Ranked Among the Greatest Documentaries Ever Made

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Produced in 1955 and running barely half an hour, the documentary-style work confronted the Nazi concentration-camp system through a stark combination of contemporary color footage, archival black-and-white images, and narration by Jean Cayrol, a former deportee.   Source: Yahoo

‘An orgiastic pandemonium’: Elvira Notari, the ‘low-life cinema’ pioneer erased by fascism

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Italy’s first female director made 60 features depicting the gritty squalor of early 20th-century Naples. Most were lost to Mussolini’s censorship and she died in obscurity – but now a new documentary gives her a voice again   Source: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/apr/06/elvira-notari-beyond-silence-first-female-italian-film-director-fascism-mussolini-censorship