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.

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

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

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. ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

On November 1, 1954, the National Liberation Front of Algeria announced the war for the country's in...

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

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

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

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

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...