Movies You Love, but Dictators Hate

Banned for "mocking dictatorships" and as "imperialist propaganda."

Argentina, Germany, Paraguay, Uganda

Banned as part of a "prohibition on Western technology and art including all films" during the five-year reign of the Taliban government (1996-2001).

Afghanistan

Banned for "implying Chinese government would use nuclear weapons on Taiwan."

China

Banned "in accordance with a decades-old Lebanese law and Arab League policy that boycotts Israeli products, namely Gal Gadot"

Lebanon, Qatar

Banned under President Park Chung-hee's regime for "its anti-war themes."

South Korea

Banned under the regime of Mao Zedong for containing "propaganda of superstitious beliefs, namely Christianity" and as "imperialist propaganda."

China, Uganda

Banned as part of a "prohibition on Western technology and art including all films" during the five-year reign of the Taliban government (1996-2001).

Afghanistan

Banned for the "juxtaposition of yellow and red" as unlucky (rebel group colors).

Burma

Banned for "its negative portrayal of the Persian military."

Iran

Banned for "being critical of the Greek junta, known as the Regime of the Colonels" (in conjunction with a ban on the letter "Z")" and as "imperialist propaganda."

Greece, Uganda

Banned in Nazi Germany "for advocating Communism" and as "imperialist propaganda."

Germany, Uganda

Banned as part of a "prohibition on Western technology and art including all films" during the five-year reign of the Taliban government (1996-2001).

Afghanistan

Banned for "for being propaganda with the intent of soliciting sympathy for the Jewish cause."

Indonesia, Malaysia

Banned for "negative portrayals of Burmese soldiers."

Burma

Banned for "danger of being misunderstood" and as "imperialist propaganda."

Paraguay, Uganda

Banned under Franco's regime for "its anti-military themes" and as "imperialist propaganda."

Spain, Uganda

Banned as part of a "prohibition on Western technology and art including all films" during the five-year reign of the Taliban government (1996-2001).

Afghanistan

Banned for "being critical of the Iraq war and being an insult to Saudi Arabia's royal family."

Kuwait, Saudi Arabia

Banned for "its negative portrayal of Iran."

Iran

Banned for "its negative portrayal of the October Revolution and communist Russia" (in conjunction with a ban on Boris Pasternak's novel, both lifted 1994)" and as "imperialist propaganda."

Russia, Uganda

Banned for "a disrespectful portrayal of Arab culture", as "imperialist propaganda", "for being anti-Turkish" and "misrepresentation."

Jordan, Uganda, Turkey and many other Arab countries

Banned as part of a "prohibition on Western technology and art including all films" during the five-year reign of the Taliban government (1996-2001).

Afghanistan

Banned for "justifying and encouraging terrorism via the film's premise about the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un." North Korea

Banned for "distorting the history of a just war and the humanity of the Vietnamese people."

Vietnam

Banned by Russia's Ministry of Culture as "... its satire was part of an alleged Western plot to destabilize the country."

Russia

Banned in Nazi Germany "for showing democracy working well" and as "imperialist propaganda."

Germany, Uganda

Banned as part of a "prohibition on Western technology and art including all films" during the five-year reign of the Taliban government (1996-2001).

Afghanistan

Banned for "pervasive vulgar language and crude sexual humor, and for some violent images", as well as, "depicting (dictator) Saddam Hussein in a comedic light."

Burma, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Vietnam and other nations.

Banned for "ridiculing President Kim Jong-Il."

North Korea

Banned for "depicting time travel and superficial depiction of significant historical events."

China

Banned for "being "anti-German" and anti-militaristic", "imperialist propaganda" and alternatively being too "pro-German." (France, Poland)

Germany, Uganda

Banned as part of a "prohibition on Western technology and art including all films" during the five-year reign of the Taliban government (1996-2001).

Afghanistan

Banned for "an inaccurate depiction of a 1996 bombing in Saudi Arabia."

Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia

Banned as part of a "prohibition on Western technology and art including all films" during the five-year reign of the Taliban government (1996-2001).

Afghanistan

Banned for "poking fun at dictators and war", "because the comedy stars were Jewish" and as "imperialist propaganda."

Germany, Italy, Uganda