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.

1962, at the end of the Algerian War, Algerian independence activists are released from Rennes priso...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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