Directed by Pierre Clément and Djamel-Eddine Chanderli, produced by the FLN Information Service in 1958, this film is a rare document. Pierre Clément is considered one of the founders of Algerian cinema. In this film he shows images of Algerian refugee camps in Tunisia and their living conditions. A restored DVD version released in 2016, from the 35 mm original donated by Pierre Clément to the Contemporary International Documentation Library (BDIC).

Illustrated with archival photographs, animations and live action, this film explores the history an...

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

On November 1, 1954, the National Liberation Front of Algeria announced the war for the country's in...

"Gerboise bleue", the first French atomic test carried out on February 13, 1960 in the Algerian Saha...

Jean Sénac, born in Béni Saf in Algeria in 1926 and died in Algiers in 1973, is today considered one...

An estimated 12 million people live in refugee camps worldwide and only 0.1% are resettled, repatria...

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

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

Here and Elsewhere takes its name from the contrasting footage it shows of the fedayeen and of a Fre...

Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo’s feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1...
Takes place in the Saharawi refugee camps in Algeria against the historical backdrop of Spanish colo...

“La Voix du Peuple,” composed of archival photographs by René Vauthier and others, exposes the root ...

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

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

Pierre Clément, student and photographer of René Vauthier, first accompanied him to Tunisia to make ...

This docu-fiction recounts the difficulties overcome by an ALN detachment whose perilous mission i...

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

Between 1954-1962, one hundred to three hundred young French people refused to participate in the Al...