Explores the life and work of the psychoanalytic theorist and activist Frantz Fanon who was born in Martinique, educated in Paris and worked in Algeria. Examines Fanon's theories of identity and race, and traces his involvement in the anti-colonial struggle in Algeria and throughout the world.

During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the met...

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

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

“Poussières de Juillet”, produced in 1967 by Hachemi El-Chérif, is taken from a poem by Kateb Yacine...

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

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

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

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

Algiers, a few years after the civil war. Amal and Samir have decided to celebrate their twentieth w...

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

A childhood episode comes back to the memory of a man with no land

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

Three centuries of Venezuela's history as a Spanish colony are considered from economic, political a...

The Second World War. French authorities ban political parties and unions. In Algeria, the leaders o...

Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo’s feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1...

Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of g...

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

This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conq...

As the Algerian War draws to a close, a teenager with a girlfriend starts feeling homosexual urges f...