diff --git a/django/template/defaultfilters.py b/django/template/defaultfilters.py
index 2f46dc7b57..ff8d4184ea 100644
--- a/django/template/defaultfilters.py
+++ b/django/template/defaultfilters.py
@@ -422,11 +422,19 @@ def safe(value):
     """
     Marks the value as a string that should not be auto-escaped.
     """
-    from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe
     return mark_safe(value)
 safe.is_safe = True
 safe = stringfilter(safe)
 
+def safeseq(value):
+    """
+    A "safe" filter for sequences. Marks each element in the sequence,
+    individually, as safe, after converting them to unicode. Returns a list
+    with the results.
+    """
+    return [mark_safe(force_unicode(obj)) for obj in value]
+safeseq.is_safe = True
+
 def removetags(value, tags):
     """Removes a space separated list of [X]HTML tags from the output."""
     tags = [re.escape(tag) for tag in tags.split()]
@@ -876,6 +884,7 @@ register.filter(removetags)
 register.filter(random)
 register.filter(rjust)
 register.filter(safe)
+register.filter(safeseq)
 register.filter('slice', slice_)
 register.filter(slugify)
 register.filter(stringformat)
diff --git a/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt b/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt
index a79063c9de..17e6e8bf9e 100644
--- a/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt
@@ -1330,6 +1330,21 @@ safe
 Marks a string as not requiring further HTML escaping prior to output. When
 autoescaping is off, this filter has no effect.
 
+.. templatefilter:: safeseq
+
+safeseq
+~~~~~~~
+
+Applies the :tfilter:`safe` filter to each element of a sequence.  Useful in
+conjunction with other filters that operate on sequences, such as
+:tfilter:`join`.  For example::
+
+    {{ some_list|safeseq|join:", " }}
+
+You couldn't use the :tfilter:`safe` filter directly in this case, as it would
+first convert the variable into a string, rather than working with the
+individual elements of the sequence.
+
 .. templatefilter:: slice
 
 slice
diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/templates/filters.py b/tests/regressiontests/templates/filters.py
index 5bc6430834..116ffbf131 100644
--- a/tests/regressiontests/templates/filters.py
+++ b/tests/regressiontests/templates/filters.py
@@ -199,6 +199,9 @@ def get_filter_tests():
         'filter-safe01': ("{{ a }} -- {{ a|safe }}", {"a": u"<b>hello</b>"}, "&lt;b&gt;hello&lt;/b&gt; -- <b>hello</b>"),
         'filter-safe02': ("{% autoescape off %}{{ a }} -- {{ a|safe }}{% endautoescape %}", {"a": "<b>hello</b>"}, u"<b>hello</b> -- <b>hello</b>"),
 
+        'filter-safeseq01': ('{{ a|join:", " }} -- {{ a|safeseq|join:", " }}', {"a": ["&", "<"]}, "&amp;, &lt; -- &, <"),
+        'filter-safeseq02': ('{% autoescape off %}{{ a|join:", " }} -- {{ a|safeseq|join:", " }}{% endautoescape %}', {"a": ["&", "<"]}, "&, < -- &, <"),
+
         'filter-removetags01': ('{{ a|removetags:"a b" }} {{ b|removetags:"a b" }}', {"a": "<a>x</a> <p><b>y</b></p>", "b": mark_safe("<a>x</a> <p><b>y</b></p>")}, u"x &lt;p&gt;y&lt;/p&gt; x <p>y</p>"),
         'filter-removetags02': ('{% autoescape off %}{{ a|removetags:"a b" }} {{ b|removetags:"a b" }}{% endautoescape %}', {"a": "<a>x</a> <p><b>y</b></p>", "b": mark_safe("<a>x</a> <p><b>y</b></p>")}, u"x <p>y</p> x <p>y</p>"),