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United States portal; Film portal; Controversies involving films in the United States, as topics of prolonged public dispute or debate, usually concerning matters of conflicting opinion or point of view in the United States. This is for articles about the controversies themselves, not articles about films which are considered controversial.
Controversies involving either live-action and animation films, as topics of prolonged public dispute or debate, usually concerning matters of conflicting opinion or point of view. Subcategories This category has the following 19 subcategories, out of 19 total.
5 Fingers (1952) – film noir spy film based on the true story of Albanian-born Elyesa Bazna, a spy with the code name of Cicero who worked for the Nazis in 1943–44 while he was employed as valet to the British ambassador to Turkey, Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen [67]
Shortly after the mockumentary film's release in Canada and the United Kingdom, many American movie theater chains including AMC, Regal, Carmike, and Cinemark refused to run the controversial British feature and banned it due to its depiction of a fictional incident in which then-President George W. Bush was assassinated. Regal's president Dick ...
Some films are not listed here in order to keep this list to a manageable size. These include films that were released before 1930 (see Category:Films by year for pre-1930 films) and works of the United States government. Films released under a free license such as Creative Commons are also excluded.
This is a list of films and miniseries that are based on actual events. All films on this list are from American production unless indicated otherwise.. Not all films have remained true to the genuine history of the event or the characters they are portraying, often adding action and drama to increase the substance and popularity of the film.
(2003) – biographical drama film based on the struggles of Melvin Van Peebles, as he attempts to film and distribute Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, a film that was widely credited with showing Hollywood that a viable African-American audience existed, and thus influencing the creation of the Blaxploitation genre [10]
Film censorship in the United States was a frequent feature of the industry almost from the beginning of the U.S. motion picture industry until the end of strong self-regulation in 1966. Court rulings in the 1950s and 1960s severely constrained government censorship , though statewide regulation lasted until at least the 1980s.