Paths of Glory (1957)

Four men go on trial for cowardice in this Stanley Kubrick film that was not liked by anyone who thought the French Army was better than they were.

Banned

• 1957

  • Belgium - required a foreward saying it was one case and not indicative of the French military

  • France - banned for being "anti-military"

  • Germany - banned due to strained relationship with France at the time

  • Spain - Francisco Franco's leadership banned it for being anti-military until 1986, 11 years after Franco's death

  • Switzerland - banned as "subversive propaganda directed at France" until 1978

  • United States - banned in military establishments home and abroad for being "anti-war"

Sources

"Banned! Criterion's Forbidden Films". Criterion.com. 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-01-20. Retrieved March 22, 2019 from https://web.archive.org/web/20140120212846/https://www.criterion.com/lists/170366-banned-criterion-s-forbidden-films

Kubrick, Stanley (dir.). Paths of Glory. Bryna Productions, 1957.

"Paths of Glory (1958) - Articles". TCM.com. 1957-09-18. Retrieved March 22, 2019 from http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/19285/Paths-of-Glory/articles.html

Robertson, Nan (15 March 1975). "French Delay Showing Films on Touchy Topics". New York Times, 1975. Retrived March 22, 1919 from https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/15/archives/french-delay-showing-films-on-touchy-topics.html

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A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

World War I Italy has a woman, cheese, alcohol, and bombs. An American ambulance driver romances, eats, drinks, and blows up.

Banned

• 1929 - Massachusetts - June 1929 issue of Scribner's magazine labeled as pornography in Boston despite sex being omitted from text as a literary device

  • Italy - banned for its accurate account of the Italian retreat from Caporetto

• 1933 - Germany - burned by the Nazi government

• 1939 - Ireland

• 1974 - Texas - Dallas Independent School District high school libraries faced challenges

• 1980 - New York - Challenged at the Vernon-Verona-Sherill School district as a "sex novel"

• Banned in Italy by the fascist government until 1948 for above (possibly due to an interview Hemingway had with Mussolini in 1923 for the Toronto Star full of scorn, calling the Italian government "the biggest bluff in Europe.")

  • In 1943, Fernanda Pivano translated the work to Italian and was arrested for the work being "anti-Italian"

Sources

Doyle, Robert P. Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read. ALA. 2014.

Hemingway, Ernest. Farewell to Arms. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1929.

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