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Welcome to watch Mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 movies.

Band in America, but not anywhere else.

I don't mean to start an argument or sound pretentious, but that's the way I feel about it.

I never heard that before.

Well, it's something we should go into some time for.

This list will be looking at various movies that have faced bands in the United States.

Have you seen any of these films?

What did you think let us know in the comments number 10, if you love this planet, this isn't really a traditional movie.

Energy equals the mass of the atom by the speed of light squared an incredibly profound revelation.

Rather, it's a filmed lecture given by prominent Australian anti nuclear activist Dr Helen Caldicott called the cops.

30 minute lecture at Suny Plattsburgh was filmed and distributed by the National Film Board of Canada.

Released at the height of Cold War tensions in 1982, it was meant to educate the general population on nuclear weapons.

The United States Department of Justice was not happy with its content and banned the film calling it quote foreign political propaganda.

This was met with derision and the ban was eventually lifted.

Don't take no for an answer.

Don't take No for an answer.

It must be done Not only that, but the film went on to win.

Best documentary short subject at that year's Oscars, you will realize that you're going to have to change the priorities of your life if you love this planet Number 92 faced Woman.

This romantic comedy was made as a desperate attempt to save Greta Garbo's waning career.

Well, if you don't want to ski mr blake, you'd better go back to the hotel and make other arrangements.

But I do, I do.

Instead, it caused significant controversy and was a box office flop.

Garbo plays a married woman who pretends to be her fake twin sister in order to woo her estranged husband.

It's um my wife's twin sister.

Really how quaint The general plot and many suggestive scenes were considered immoral.

In 1940s, America and the archbishop of New York condemned it.

It was subsequently banned in numerous American cities including Boston.

The movie underwent reshoots to alter objectionable material and the censored version was released without incident.

As a matter of fact, I'm better than ever.

The original cut still exists, but it is exceedingly rare.

Number eight, The thorn originally released as the greatest story over told.

The thorn is a religious satire starring Bette Midler as the virgin mary, not mary, I am from God.

Mhm Oh thank God, How is she?

Following its premiere at the Detroit Institute of Art.

The movie was re titled The Divine Mr J.

And released in new york City.

The title was a reference to Midler's debut album, The Divine Miss M and Midler wasn't happy.

She sued the studio for using her intellectual property in its title and marketing.

Midler won the case and the movie was banned.

It was then rereleased on VHS in 1984.

Now under the title of the Thorn, is this the nativity scene the one that they're going to be talking about for years to come?

However, the title change wasn't enough for the courts and the movie was again banned.

It has remained so, but a VHS rip can easily be found online and here's a diaphragm with a special prayer on it called, forgive me for I know not what I do.

Number seven flaming creatures, Released in 1963, flaming creatures is a short experimental movie with a run time of just over 40 minutes and it drew immediate criticism for its sexual content.

Some cinemas refused to show it and police raided one venue, arresting four people in confiscating the film reel.

Three of them were convicted of obscenity charges.

Although this was overturned by the new york Supreme Court Wild.

That didn't stop the police raids.

However, which continued throughout the 19 sixties.

It would be decades until the controversial movie re emerged for public showings number six, Portland expose a film noir.

From the late fifties, Portland expose stars Edward Bins as a tavern owner who gets mixed up with union gangs.

You ready to sign, I told you before I can hang on for a year, closed tight, You'll be closed Alright.

The story was loosely inspired by the criminal career of Jim Elkins, a crime boss who operated in the Portland area around the time of the movie's release, I suppose they would call my business a racket.

But if I hadn't run it, somebody else would.

The movie was scheduled to open in Portland on August 14, 1957, but dozens of people allegedly involved in Elkins Criminal Empire threatened to sue you back again.

That's right.

Mr Madison.

According to the booking Agent who canceled the premier, up to 40 individuals came forward to make threats.

The agent capitulated to their demands and the movie was banned within a 30 mile radius of Portland's catch all of it enough.

Those files, we could be in front of the grand jury tomorrow.

Number five, Kiss Tomorrow.

Goodbye.

This film really should have worked.

But unfortunately the eighth, the man who motivated this whole vicious and sinister crew, the most evil man of all, is not present.

It was released at the height of the film noir craze and it starred James cagney who was fresh off the Oscar nominated.

White Heat.

Unfortunately, it received poor reviews and faded into obscurity.

This was quite a dour film for its time filled with killings, an Amoral and unlikeable protagonist, police corruption and even hints of sadomasochism.

It was all too much for the Ohio film board and the movie was banned in the state.

All I want is to be let alone in their own words.

Kiss tomorrow Goodbye was quote, a sordid sadistic presentation of brutality and an extreme presentation of crime with explicit steps in commission.

What are you so gloomy about?

You're off the hook, aren't you?

You don't know anybody anything except maybe society Number four promises promises.

This film has a notable place in Hollywood history starring playboy, Playmate Jayne Mansfield.

It's the first sound movie to feature a major star in the nude.

Hi sweetheart, just having a drink, join me.

Oh no thanks.

It's not five yet, nudity in film was explicitly banned under the Hays code, a form of self censorship that all the major studios adhered to.

However, the code's power had largely dwindled by the early sixties, resulting in more risque productions.

Rah miss her.

Anything if you're in love.

Mansfield's disrobing was the primary draw for the film and she marketed her movie by posing in playboy.

This in turn resulted in obscenity charges against Hugh Hefner.

Although he was acquitted, the movie was similarly met with controversy and banned in many US cities.

I like the way you put that.

Did you?

You're out of your mind.

Number three bicycle thieves often regarded as one of the greatest movies ever made bicycle thieves is considered a masterpiece of the italian neo realist movement In 1950, it was honored with an Oscar nom for best screenplay and received an honorary award for being the most outstanding foreign language film despite its recognition.

Bicycle thieves also caused considerable controversy in the us.

In March 1950, the Motion Picture Association banned the movie throughout the United States for containing Lurid sequences.

These included scenes inside a bordello and a sequence in which a little boy urinates number to birth control.

It's amazing what 100 years can do what you're about to witness is an unrehearsed uncensored interview on the issue of birth control.

The United States of 1917 is a pretty alien place to us now, not just technologically but morally and legally as well.

In that year, sex educator Margaret Sanger released birth control a short documentary about family planning.

I don't like to see people suffer.

I don't like to see cruelty.

Even to this day.

Sanger was a prominent birth control activist who opened the first clinic of its kind in the United States educating women about the use of diaphragms in particular.

This documentary helped spread her message but was met with fierce condemnation.

Two years earlier, the U.

S.

Supreme Court had ruled that movies were not protected under free speech as such.

Sanger's documentary was banned, quote in the interest of morality, decency and public safety and welfare sadly it's been lost.

Did you do this to yourself?

I couldn't afford another baby right now.

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If you're on your phone, make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications number one, the birth of a nation.

This silent, epic drama film remains one of the most controversial movies ever made.

While praised for its technological advancements, the movie received widespread criticism for its revisionist history and racist tone.

It's seemingly champions white supremacy by depicting the ku Klux Klan as heroic and portraying african americans as unintelligent and violent.

The movie helped contribute to racial segregation in the us and even resulted in the re emergence of the KKK, which had disbanded over 40 years earlier.

In response to protests and racial violence, a few us states and cities ended up banning the movie.

One of the efforts was to try to get it shut down.

People look at this film and they say this is what we are fighting against.

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