Roberto Rossellini’s The Miracle (1948), a 40-minute Italian film, is about a peasant woman who mistakenly thinks she has experienced a virgin pregnancy. When it was shown in New York City with two other short films under the group title The Way of Love, Catholic groups protested. The attempt to ban the film in New York led to a landmark Supreme Court decision placing movies with books and newspapers in terms of First Amendment protection.
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