Your Favorite Movie Might Have Been Banned In These Countries

2012

Cast your mind back to a time when we thought the world was going to end in 2012. The Mayan calendar ‘predicted’ that it would be the end of the world as we know it due to extreme weather and destruction.

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Well, there’s one country that didn’t need fears being increased through the medium of film: North Korea. Apparently, anyone who was caught watching or distributing the film would be sent to five years of hard labor in prison.