On September 5, 1960, the trial of about twenty French activists from the "Jeanson Network" began, supporters in the metropolis of the action of the Algerian FLN independence activists. But after a few days, the situation was reversed and the trial transformed into a political arena, it was the government, the army, their policy, it was the entire Algerian war whose trial began. Accused, witnesses, lawyers, overflowing a stunned court, transformed the courtroom into a tribune of the opposition. The trial coincided with the publication of the "Manifesto of the 121" on the right to insubordination, signed among others by Jean Paul Sartre, Arthur Adamov, Simone de Beauvoir, André Breton, Marguerite Duras, Pierre Boulez, René Dumont, François Chatelet…

Roberto Muniz, nicknamed "Mahmoud the Argentinian," was a revolutionary fighter who joined the Natio...

In 1971, after being rejected by Hollywood, Bruce Lee returned to his parents’ homeland of Hong Kong...

The image of French prisoners was very often evoked in Algerian cinema and literature, but until tod...

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

During the Algerian war (1954-1962), some French people helped the F.L.N. in France.

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

He is a 75-year-old half-blind man. He takes 3000 steps every day. Since 2004 he has made a decision...

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

“La Zerda and the songs of oblivion” (1982) is one of only two films made by the Algerian novelist A...

Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo’s feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1...
Achour is thirty. Night and day, he walks. Rebellious soul, he crisscrosses Alger and its neighborho...

In 1973, 6 guides from the National Ski and Mountaineering School (ENSA), including Charles Daubas a...

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

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

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

In 2024, Abdelkrim Baba Aissa, aged 75, engages in a series of filmed interviews with Algerian journ...

On March 29, 1947, peasants armed with sticks and knives attacked the French garrisons in Madagascar...