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.

Selim Mechoubine, a young man of 28, is the eldest of a large family. In the cramped accommodation h...

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

In colonial Vietnam, dashing French naval captain Jean-Baptiste, wealthy plantation owner Éliane Dev...

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

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

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

In Algeria in 1954, in a village in the Aurès region, poverty reigns over peasants enslaved by colon...

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

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

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

“Poussières de Juillet”, produced in 1967 by Hachemi El-Chérif, is taken from a poem by Kateb Yacine...

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

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

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

‘The Cyborgs’ is re-telling the recent history of Ukraine – the legendary fight for Donetsk Airport ...

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

Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He ...

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

"Yasmina" filmed in 1961 in the middle of the Algerian war tells the story of a little Algerian girl...