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.

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

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

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

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

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

Albert Camus, who died 60 years ago, continues to inspire defenders of freedom and human rights acti...

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the fall of 1987, Philippe Haas accompanied the sculptor Richard Long to the Algerian Sahara and ...

The smallest of sparks can lead to the largest of explosions. Such is the case of the Atomic Bomb an...

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

Albert Camus died at 46 years old on January 4, 1960, two years after his Nobel Prize in literature....

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

This 17-minute documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of The Battle of Algie...

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