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BBFC kills a documentary about the UK Government proscribed group Palestine Action
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 | 18th July 2025
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| Thanks to Joseph
See article from bbfc.co.uk
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To Kill a War Machine is a 2025 UK documentary by Hannan Majid, Richard York
Starring Huda Ammori, Richard Barnard and Shezana Hafiz
Originally uncut and BBFC 15 rated for a 2025 cinema release, but was banned a month later following the UK government ban of the campaign group Palestine Action. Summary Notes
A documentary about the activist group Palestine Action. Versions
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|  | UK: Banned by BBFC
- 2025 Rainbow Collective cinema release (rated 04/07/2025)
The BBFC commented: To Kill a War Machine is a British documentary about the group Palestine Action, who were proscribed under the Terrorism Act 2000 with effect from 5 July 2025. The film was originally classified
15 uncut for cinema release on 5 June 2025, before the group was proscribed. Given the proscription of the organisation, and in accordance with legal advice, further distribution or exhibition of To Kill a War Machine is likely to constitute an offence
under the Terrorism Act 2000. As such, the classification for this film was revoked on 4 July 2025. BBFC Guidelines and policy state that we will not classify material which is in breach of the criminal law.
The film makers, Rainbow
Collective, also took down an online release, saying in a statement: Following the vote in the House of Commons on 2nd July 2025 to proscribe Palestine Action, Rainbow Collective have taken the difficult decision to
temporarily take down the online version of our film, To Kill a War Machine and authorise no further screenings of the film until further notice. As filmmakers with 20 years of experience documenting movements for social justice
around the world, we produced To Kill a War Machine independently, within the law and had it certified for cinema release by the BBFC. The film itself does not become illegal, as it was produced and edited prior to proscription. However, future
distribution of anything which could be interpreted as showing sympathy for or inviting support for a proscribed organisation will become illegal. It has always been Rainbow Collective's intention to tell critical and truthful
stories with integrity. We never want our documentaries to expose our audiences or communities to danger from the state and, as such, the film will remain unavailable until we have absolute legal assurance that it can be distributed within the law.
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|  | UK: Uncut and BBFC 15 rated for images of real dead bodies and injury, criminal behaviour:
- 2025 Rainbow Collective cinema release (rated 05/06/2025 but banned from 04/07/2025)
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An occasional series of old BBFC Cuts to the Carry On films
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| 18th June 2025
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| Thanks to Vince
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Carry On Teacher is a 1959 UK comedy by Gerald Thomas
Starring Kenneth Williams, Leslie Phillips and Kenneth Connor
BBFC cuts were required for 'U' rated cinema release in 1959. The BBFC cuts have
persisted into all releases since. Summary Notes Pupils run amok at Maudlin Street School in an attempt to hang on to their headmaster. He has applied for a new job, but the students
like him and don't want to lose him.
Versions
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BBFC U rated for mild sex references and comic violence:
UK: Cut and BBFC U rated for:
- 2001 Warner Home DVD (rated 12/09/2001)
- 1988 Warner Home VHS (rated 11/07/1988)
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|  | UK: A longer version was BBFC U rated for mild sex references and comic violence for mild
sex references and comic violence after BBFC cuts:
- 1959 Beaconsfield Films cinema release (rated 20/05/1959)
Thanks to Vince. The BBFC cuts list read:
Reel 2 & 3 - Shorten the dialogue between the master and the pupil who objects to the use of the school edition of 'Romeo and Juliet', especially removing the phrase "by her fine foot, straight leg and thigh and the demesnes
that there adjacent lie."
From IMDb: The name 'Allcock' was questioned by the 1950s' censors, especially how much the characters constantly say it with such precision on the cock part, but they eventually allowed it to pass.
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BBFC briefly erroneously reported censor cuts but the film is actually 18 rated and uncut
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| 13th June 2025
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See article from bbfc.co.uk
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A Game in the Woods is a 2024 US horror by Mike McCutchen
Starring Eleanor Newman, Emily Skeen and John P. Crowley
The BBFC briefly reported dialogue cuts to this film but this was an erroneous
database entry and the film is actually uncut and BBFC 18 rated. The video is uncut and MPA Unrated in the US. Summary Notes After a Texas rancher dies, his granddaughter and her
girlfriend discover masked hunters at his ranch competing in a twisted game of life and death. Will the beauties and their already rocky romance survive the brutal carnage?
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1979 Japan horror thriller by Chusei Sone, previously significantly cut, just passed 18 uncut by the BBFC
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| 7th May 2025
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Angel Guts: Red Classroom is a 1979 Japan horror thriller by Chûsei Sone
Starring Yûki Mizuhara, Keizô Kanie and Jun Aki
Distributors submitted this film to the BBFC in 2002 but the BBFC required
unacceptable cuts and the distributors abandoned the UK release. The BBFC was finally passed 18 uncut for Blu-ray in 2025. Uncut and MPAA Unrated in the US.
Summary Notes When a
writer for a porn magazine, watches a "rape" porn that is set in a school, he becomes obsessed with the lead actress, Nami, and tries to find her. He meets her by chance as he arrives for a shoot at a hotel.
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uncut
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rated for sexual violence, strong sex, nudity:
- 2025 Third Window Films Blu-ray (rated 06/05/2025) titled Angel Guts - Red Classroom
US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:
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|  | UK: BBFC 18 rated for sexual violence, strong sex, nudity for sexual violence, strong sex, nudity
after BBFC cuts:
- 2002 Artsmagic DVD (rated 16/09/2002)
The BBFC commented: Compulsory cuts required to remove eroticising sight of forced exposure and groping of breasts and to remove eroticising detail from subsequent rape scene. Cuts made in accordance with BBFC Guidelines
and BBFC Policy on sexual violence.
The video remained unreleased after the BBFC required unacceptable cuts. Distributors ArtsMagic collected all five uncut versions of Nikkatsu's officially produced "Angel Guts" films
from 1978-1988. Having had difficulties submitting Red Classroom and Red Dizziness to the BBFC back in 2002 they decided to abandon plans for the UK market full stop, because they knew they wouldn't be able to release the best versions that they could.
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