CNN has an interesting piece about censorship of inflight video entertainment:
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/12/tr...iref=obnetwork
Inflight movies are big business still and the censorship still occurs and varies at least by airline and/or cabin.
It's not surprising that most airlines avoid movies about air disasters.
Inflight movies are subject to some of the most cutthroat censorship policies in the entertainment world, even to the point of editing out competitive airline logos.
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"Depending on which region the airline is from, there will be different tolerances," says Jovita Toh, CEO at Encore Inflight Limited, an inflight distributor for airlines, based in Hong Kong.
"Europeans are OK with some nudity but cannot tolerate gore and too much violence.
"The Middle East is strictly against any form of sexual language or bare skin but highly tolerant of violent scenes. Muslim airlines also request all mentions of pig or pork be removed even from the subtitles.
"Singapore is very sensitive to scenes or movies with homosexual content."
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"Other edit points will be plane crashes, logos of other airlines, foul language," says Toh.
"Airlines tend to stay away from horror, sexual, political, religious and terrorist content.
"We have also changed some gory bloody scenes to black and white to soften the effect."
[While this thread was started years ago, it seems as relevant today as ever and was what came up when searching for a thread about "movies" and "censor" on FT. Instead of starting a new thread about it, I chose to post in an existing one.]