“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."

In February 1966, Pierre Mazeaud and Lucien Berardini attempted a difficult first ascent to one of t...

TSR documentary on the 1979 expedition to Algeria in the Atakor massif (Hoggar desert), organized by...

More than fifty years after the release of the film “The Battle of Algiers” in theaters in June 1966...

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

Approximately, because so-called "ethnic" statistics are prohibited, there are an estimated 3.3 mill...

In the streets of Marseille, René Allio encounters, once again, the spaces of his childhood, and rem...

Doing really well on your school assessment tests, but still having the school recommend that you go...

Turkey's history has been shaped by two major political figures: Mustafa Kemal (1881-1934), known as...

Memory prevents rest and a woman about to die takes advantage of cinema to tell her story (inseparab...

Documentary on the atrocities the germans committed at the start of WW I in Dinant.

The silence behind the genocide of the Rohingyas in Burma.

Just after midnight on 10 March 1945, the US launched an air-based attack on eastern Tokyo; continui...

“La Zerda and the songs of oblivion” (1982) is one of only two films made by the Algerian novelist A...

In Aukland Harbour, New Zealand, on July 10th 1985, French navy combat frogmen placed two mines agai...

Documentary film about Tony Halme, masculinity and populism. The film follows how Tony Halme created...

In the fifties, when the future Democratic Republic of Congo was still a Belgian colony, an entire g...
A documentary about rap artists from Ceilândia, a satellite-city of Brazil capital, Brasilia. The fi...

This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank's...

After the Battle of Algiers, France and its army exported, as true experts, anti-subversive methods ...