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.
"Yasmina" filmed in 1961 in the middle of the Algerian war tells the story of a little Algerian girl...
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set ad...
On an Algerian beach, kids splash about, sleep, squabble - and then suddenly go to war. And it’s nei...
Pas De Blanc À La Une, by Youcef Bouchouchi, treatises the brutality of the conflict during the war ...
This historical featurette focuses on Caesar Rodney of Delaware who in the summer of 1776 cast the d...
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...
Bab El-Oued, a popular district of Algiers, in 1989, a few months after the riots. Boualem works at ...
Social drama about Algerian immigrant workers who came searching for work in France.
Recognizing no boundaries to her love, Angele manages to foment riots, rages and tragedy in colonial...
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful pris...
These are the first images shot in the ALN maquis, camera in hand, at the end of 1956 and in 1957. T...
In the 70s, in the Goutte d'or district, three friends of Algerian origin: Poulou, a failed boxer, A...
The year is 1950 and an English couple, Louise and Michael, have arrived in French-occupied Indochin...
The Second World War. French authorities ban political parties and unions. In Algeria, the leaders o...
In Algiers in 1993, while the civil war is starting, Mrs Osmane's tenants have to endure her bad tem...
“Poussières de Juillet”, produced in 1967 by Hachemi El-Chérif, is taken from a poem by Kateb Yacine...
Two deaf and dumb children. She is the daughter of an American Oil engineer. He is the son of an Alg...
In 1895, young journalist Albertine Auclair arrives in the Kabylie during a family visit. The beauty...