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Since its inception in 1912, the BBFC's duty has been to classify films, television programmes, video games, advertisements and other visual media according to their content. If a work is deemed unacceptable by the BBFC according to their guidelines or potentially illegal under British law, they can choose to refuse a certificate for that work.
The BBFC (by this time renamed as British Board of Film Classification) became that designated authority in 1985. [7] The film censorship that exists in the UK today is in the form of an Age-Rating system, which is an advisory tool used by local councils when deciding to grant viewing permission to film productions. [8]
Pages in category "Films originally rejected by the British Board of Film Classification" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The BBFC is responsible for making decisions on age ratings for film, TV and online content.
British Board of Film Censors 'U' certificate for Berlin Airlift (1949) [9]. The BBFC was established in 1912 as the British Board of Film Censors, under the aegis of the Incorporated Association of Kinematograph Manufacturers, [10] by film trade associations who preferred to manage their own censorship than to have national or local government do it for them.
Banned due to the film portraying a gay character. [275] 2022 Lightyear: Banned due to a brief lesbian kiss scene. [40] [41] 2023 Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – To the Swordsmith Village: The first Japanese film to be banned due to a scene's explicit nature where Mitsuri Kanroji, Love Hashira, takes a shower in the hot spring. [278] 2023
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Video nasty is a colloquial term popularised [1] by the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association (NVALA) in the United Kingdom to refer to a number of films, typically low-budget horror or exploitation films, distributed on video cassette in the early 1980s that were criticised by the press, social commentators, and various religious organisations for their violent content.