60 years ago, in the Algerian desert, an atomic bomb, equivalent to three or even four times Hiroshima, exploded. Named the “Blue Gerboise”, it was the first atomic bomb tested by France, and of hitherto unrivaled power. This 70 kiloton plutonium bomb was launched in the early morning, in the Reggane region, in southern Algeria, during the French colonial era. If this test allowed France to become the 4th nuclear power in the world, it had catastrophic repercussions. France had, at the time, certified that the radiation was well below the standard safety threshold. However, in 2013, declassified files revealed that the level of radioactivity had been much higher than announced, and had been recorded from West Africa to the south of Spain.

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

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...

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

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Filmmaker Karim Aïnouz decides to take a boat, cross the Mediterranean, and embark on his first jour...

By ending the life of Jean Senac on August 30, 1973 in Algiers, his assassins believed they would si...

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

A stubborn director who wants to rediscover the Algiers of his childhood comes up against the “Holly...

Rabie is a kid from Sétif in 1980, trying to collect money to buy a wheelchair for his paralyzid sis...

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

Surviving a plane crash in the Sahara, four oilmen find and manage to repair a German Afrika Corps t...

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

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In 1967, Visconti came to Algiers for the filming of The Stranger with Mastroianni and Anna Karina. ...