A group of refractory and pacifist Bretons is sent to Algeria. These beings confronted with the horrors of war gradually become killing machines. One of them did not accept it and deserted, taking with him an FLN prisoner who was to be executed the next day.

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

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...

Film describes the miserable existence of a charcoal-burner who is barely able to feed his family. H...

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

At the outbreak of the Second World War, two friends, Mokrane and Menach, abruptly interrupt their s...

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

This docu-fiction recounts the difficulties overcome by an ALN detachment whose perilous mission i...

Selim Mechoubine, a young man of 28, is the eldest of a large family. In the cramped accommodation h...

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

The year is 1950 and an English couple, Louise and Michael, have arrived in French-occupied Indochin...

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

A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful pris...

“La Zerda and the songs of oblivion” (1982) is one of only two films made by the Algerian novelist A...

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

In colonial Vietnam, dashing French naval captain Jean-Baptiste, wealthy plantation owner Éliane Dev...

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

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

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