Dark Night, October 17, 1961 (2005)
• June 7th, 2005 • 2h 0min
TV Movie, Drama, History
Overview
Parisian authorities clash with the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) in director Alain Tasma’s recounting of one of the darkest moments of the Algerian War of Independence. As the war wound to a close and violence persisted in the streets of Paris, the FLN and its supporters adopted the tactic of murdering French policemen in hopes of forcing a withdrawal. When French law enforcement retaliated by brutalizing Algerians and imposing a strict curfew, the FLN organizes a peaceful demonstration that drew over 11,000 supporters, resulting in an order from the Paris police chief to take brutal countermeasures. Told through the eyes of both French policemen as well as Algerian protestors, Tasma’s film attempts to get to the root of the tragedy by presenting both sides of the story.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
To Kill a Mockingbird
Released on: 1962-12-20
Drama
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...
Full Metal Jacket
Released on: 1987-06-26
Drama, War
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow rec...
The Wanderers
Released on: 1979-07-13
Drama
The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is live...
Driving Miss Daisy
Released on: 1989-12-13
Drama
The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, ...
La Haine
Released on: 1995-05-31
Drama
After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert an...
Cléo from 5 to 7
Released on: 1962-04-11
Drama
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set ad...
Escape from Pretoria
Released on: 2020-03-06
Drama, History, Thriller
South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African Natio...
Ils voulaient tuer de Gaulle
Released on: 2005-06-30
Documentary, History, TV Movie, Crime
Based on the model of documentary fiction (alternating period films, interviews and re-enactments wi...
Shock Value
Released on: 2025-05-29
Thriller, Mystery, Drama
Confined to a 1960s testing room, a man assigned the name of "Teacher" by an unseen voice must condu...
September
Released on: 2007-11-29
Drama
The friendship of two 15-year-old boys – one black, one white – begins to fall apart under the stres...
The Offence
Released on: 1973-01-11
Crime, Drama, Thriller
A burned-out British police detective finally snaps while interrogating a suspected child molester.
Chronicle of the Years of Fire
Released on: 1975-11-26
Drama, War, History
A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian national movement from 1939 until the outbre...
This Woman Is Not a Car
Released on: 1982-01-06
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A depressed wife and mother whose reality is starting to fracture into fantasy, drives her children ...
Il Divo
Released on: 2008-05-28
Drama
Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous wit...
JUDY1964
Released on: 2025-03-02
Drama, Animation
In the 1960s, young Judy is captivated by an advertisement for toy guns. But when she discovers her ...
The Right Stuff
Released on: 1983-10-20
Drama, History, Adventure
At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to ...
A Perfect World
Released on: 1993-11-24
Drama, Crime, Thriller
A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law,...
Convoy
Released on: 1978-06-27
Action, Comedy, Drama
Trucker Rubber Duck and his buddies Pig Pen, Widow Woman and Spider Mike use their CB radios to warn...
That Thing You Do!
Released on: 1996-10-04
Comedy, Drama, Romance, Music
A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with...