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.

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set ad...

1936. As villages across Palestine rise against British colonial rule, Yusuf drifts between his rura...

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

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

"Yasmina" filmed in 1961 in the middle of the Algerian war tells the story of a little Algerian girl...

Between 1954-1962, one hundred to three hundred young French people refused to participate in the Al...

Indian freedom fighter Gandhiji was killed by Nathuram Godse. But what made Nathuram Godse to take t...

In 1994, at over seventy years old, Gilberte and William Sportisse, threatened by the FIS, arrived f...

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

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

More than fifty years after the release of the film “The Battle of Algiers” in theaters in June 1966...

This documentary by director Claire Billet and historian Christophe Lafaye details the massive and s...

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

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

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

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

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

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