“In Algeria, we are restoring order, what we mean by French order,” declared Michel Debré, Prime Minister, under the presidency of Charles De Gaulle, in April 1956. It was, of course, order colonial in defiance of the republican order, in Algeria as in Paris where, on October 17, 1961, Algerians flocking from suburban slums were massacred by the police of prefect Maurice Papon, while they were peacefully marching for the independence of their country. On October 17, 2001, a commemorative plaque was placed in Paris on the Saint-Michel bridge: "In memory of the many Algerians killed during the bloody repression of the peaceful demonstration of October 17, 1961." A surge of racial hatred, less than 20 years after the roundup of the Jews in July 1942. An Algerian, victim of this roundup, told us, holding back his tears, "I still have nightmares."

More than fifty years after the release of the film “The Battle of Algiers” in theaters in June 1966...
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Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo’s feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1...

I was about seven years old the first time someone called me \"black\" on the street. I turned aroun...

These are the first images shot in the ALN maquis, camera in hand, at the end of 1956 and in 1957. T...

In 1967, Visconti came to Algiers for the filming of The Stranger with Mastroianni and Anna Karina. ...

An attempt to create a bridge between the different political positions that coexist, sometimes viol...

A film about small Ontario town's struggle to restore a desecrated African-Canadian cemetery and the...

In 1971, after being rejected by Hollywood, Bruce Lee returned to his parents’ homeland of Hong Kong...

Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial r...

The image of French prisoners was very often evoked in Algerian cinema and literature, but until tod...

Seven strangers are interviewed to talk about the relationship they have with their mother.

Immigrated to the Paris region since 1964, Kader decides to spend the summer holidays with his famil...

Filmmaker Karim Aïnouz decides to take a boat, cross the Mediterranean, and embark on his first jour...

Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper, was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 A...

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This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is...

This 17-minute documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of The Battle of Algie...

After a premonition of an unusual bird, a father loses his voice. His daughter undertakes a search t...