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Movies: Best "book burning" Movies


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Equilibrium(2002)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 47min | Action, Science Fiction, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 2,098 votes)

In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.

Pleasantville(1998)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 4min | Fantasy, Comedy, Drama
3.6/5 (with 730 votes)

Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer's modern attitude disrupts Pleasantville's peaceful but boring routine, she literally brings color into its life.

Fahrenheit 451(1966)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 53min | Drama, Science Fiction
3.6/5 (with 405 votes)

In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of his vocation….

Fahrenheit 451(2018)

2.7/5 (with 370 votes)

In an oppressive future, a 'fireman' whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.

The Abyss(1988)

1h 50min | Drama
2.7/5 (with 8 votes)

The Inquisition is in full swing in 16th century Flanders. Wanted for his dissident writings, the alchemist doctor Zeno has been wandering Europe under an assumed name for twenty years. But he remains a non-conformist. He returns to his native Bruges, where he thinks he has been forgotten. In this silent labyrinth where the faces of the past resurface, he rediscovers his identity and thus signs his death warrant.

The Paper Brigade(2018)

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by the Germans, are gathered in Vilnius to be classified, either to be stored or to be destroyed. A group of Jewish scholars and writers, commissioned by the invaders to carry out the sorting operations, but reluctant to collaborate and determined to save their legacy, hide many books in the ghetto where they are confined. This is the epic story of the Paper Brigade.

Book Hunters(2017)

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

When chaos reigns, while barbaric and fanatical rulers, both ecclesiastical and secular, systematically burn entire libraries, book hunters, secret heroes of history, travel the world saving and copying texts, threatened by the madness of censors, with the noble purpose of preventing the ultimate loss of human knowledge.

Directed by Susanne Brahms