Many of them participated in the struggle for Algerian independence. There are "those who believed in heaven", priests, Christians committed against torture, friends of the "natives", there are "those who did not believe in it", communist activists, students, progressive intellectuals, others remained in this country because they could not imagine living anywhere other than in this land of all passions. They are European and chose to stay in Algeria after independence, most of them opted for Algerian nationality. The film is another vision of the history of Algeria from the end of the fifties to the present day, told by these Europeans filmed at home, or in the context of their activities, illustrated by unpublished archive documents.
During the Napoleonic Wars the British Army realised that it needed skirmishers, as a result it rais...
At the heart of the Moroccan High Atlas mountains, water is a resource in short supply. The village ...
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Abdelkader ibn Muhieddine (Arabic: عبد القادر بن محي الدين (ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥyiddīn), also known...
The exceptional portrait of a pacifist general, the only senior officer to have spoken out against t...
60 years ago, in the Algerian desert, an atomic bomb, equivalent to three or even four times Hiroshi...
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There is an interlinking history of violent European colonialism and the cultural legacy of ethnogra...
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Jacqueline Gozlan - who left Algeria with her parents in 1961 - nostalgically retraces the history o...
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