In the midst of the Algerian liberation war, two characters, a meddah (traditional storyteller) and a guerrab (water distributor), having become aware of their subhuman condition in their own country, join the National Liberation Army (ALN) to fight against inhumane colonialism. They will climb the ranks to become political commissioners before falling on the field of honor, the first in a skirmish and the other in Barberousse prison (Serkadji) where he will be guillotined.

Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a F...

During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the met...

Has everything really been said about the Algerian war? Although the archives are opening up, almost...

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set ad...

As a boy, Raoul is reared by an Arab tribe in Algerian Sahara. Years later, as a refined Europeanize...

In Algiers in 1993, while the civil war is starting, Mrs Osmane's tenants have to endure her bad tem...

A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful pris...

It's the unforgivable story of the two hundred thousands harkis, the Arabs who fought alongside the ...

1953, colonized Algeria. Fanon, a young black psychiatrist is appointed head doctor at the Blida-Jo...

Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after s...

A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.

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

Néfissa, a student in Algiers, returns to her village in the south in the summer. Her father wants h...

In prison in colonial Algeria, shortly after the end of the Second World War, three indigenous cellm...

As the Algerian War draws to a close, a teenager with a girlfriend starts feeling homosexual urges f...

Algeria. Benjamin, Kateb and Antoine are three teenagers from three religious backgrounds who never ...

This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conq...

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

A French teacher in a small Algerian village during the Algerian War forms an unexpected bond with a...