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...

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

In 1971, the Algerian government nationalized hydrocarbons. The consequences of this decision on the...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Film describes the miserable existence of a charcoal-burner who is barely able to feed his family. H...

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

Djamila, a young Algerian woman living with her brother Hadi and her uncle Mustafa in the Casbah dis...

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

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

This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is...
In this alleged retelling of Lincoln's early life, the President-to-be is rescued by Henry, a Black ...

In the midst of the Algerian war for independence, a group of fighters is trapped in the mountains, ...