Many countries have government-appointed or private commissions to censor and rate productions for film and television exhibition.
"Before, films where Soviet and Russian heroes were presented not in the best way have been released in Russia, but nothing similar happened.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il reportedly owned a collection of around 15,000 films, many of which were from overseas.
[361] According to Nick Romano of Vanity Fair, during Kim Il Sung's reign of North Korea, "[Kim Jong Il] even established an underground circuit of bootleg films, as North Koreans weren’t allowed to watch most international releases".
[361] The British film Bend It Like Beckham was broadcast on North Korean state television on 26 December 2010, to celebrate foreign relations between the two nations; the film contains significant sub-plots about religion and homosexuality, but was edited down to half its original runtime for the broadcast.