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).

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

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

As the Syrian war continues to leave entire generations without education, health care, or a state, ...

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

1962, at the end of the Algerian War, Algerian independence activists are released from Rennes priso...

In 1994, at over seventy years old, Gilberte and William Sportisse, threatened by the FIS, arrived f...

He is a 75-year-old half-blind man. He takes 3000 steps every day. Since 2004 he has made a decision...

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...
Takes place in the Saharawi refugee camps in Algeria against the historical backdrop of Spanish colo...

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

Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of g...

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

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

The first French anti-colonialist film, derived from an assignment in which the director was to docu...

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