“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."
Concerning Violence is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most da...
Jacqueline Gozlan - who left Algeria with her parents in 1961 - nostalgically retraces the history o...
A 60th anniversary retrospective documentary on the influence and context of the 1962 film, To Kill ...
In 1945, two young American soldiers, brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg, are commissioned to collec...
In 1935, German scientists dug for bones; in 1943, they murdered to get them. How the German scienti...
A short animated documentary featuring archival recordings of the filmmaker's Volga-German Great-Gre...
Lissette's favorite aunt Adriana, who lives in Australia, is arrested in 2007 while visiting her fam...
All the cool kids were wearing it. This documentary explores A&F's pop culture reign in the late '90...
Originally there was a silence. That of Malek, the filmmaker’s father, who for years said nothing of...
Writer producer Donick Cary (The Simpsons, Parks and Recreation, Have a Good Trip, etc.) has been a...
It is the evocation of a life as brief as it is dense. An encounter with a dazzling thought, that of...
Using innovative animation and expert insights, this documentary based on Ibram X. Kendi's bestselle...
There is an interlinking history of violent European colonialism and the cultural legacy of ethnogra...
An attempt to create a bridge between the different political positions that coexist, sometimes viol...
Mamie Lang Kirkland still remembers the night in 1915 when panic filled her home in Ellisville, Miss...
Germans colonized the land of Namibia, in southern Africa, during a brief period of time, from 1840 ...
In an age when women were incapable of joining the artistic dialogue, Lilias Trotter managed to win ...
A documentary juxtaposing the events of the 20th century with the commentary of stand-up comedians.
Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed...
Short documentary commissioned by the magazine Présence Africaine. From the question "Why is the Afr...