Between 1954-1962, one hundred to three hundred young French people refused to participate in the Algerian war. These rebels, soldiers or conscripts were non-violent or anti-colonialists. Some took refuge in Switzerland where Swiss citizens came to their aid, while in France they were condemned as traitors to the country. In 1962, a few months after Independence, Villi Hermann went to a region devastated by war near the Algerian-Moroccan border, to help rebuild a school. In 2016 he returned to Algeria and reunited with his former students. He also met French refractories, now living in France or Switzerland.

A documentary focusing on American conscientious objectors during WWII.

TSR documentary on the 1979 expedition to Algeria in the Atakor massif (Hoggar desert), organized by...

In February 1966, Pierre Mazeaud and Lucien Berardini attempted a difficult first ascent to one of t...

In 1950, the explorer Roger Frison-Roche made a crossing of more than a thousand kilometers on the b...

Immigrated to the Paris region since 1964, Kader decides to spend the summer holidays with his famil...

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The award-winning filmmaker Peter Lilienthal is dedicated to this extremely poignant documentary of ...

The former French colonies in Central and West Africa have been independent since 1960, but most of ...

Documentary film about Arndt Pekurinen and the peace movement in the early 20th century. Pekurinen s...

Beginning with a promotional reel encouraging farming investments in Algeria and ending with the sec...
A short documentary that emerge at the center of round table debate, participating in it there's thr...

Five young Italian climbers, Paolo Grunanger, Lorenzo Marimonti, Pietro Meciani, Lodovico Gaetani an...

Pierre Clément, student and photographer of René Vauthier, first accompanied him to Tunisia to make ...

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

He is a 75-year-old half-blind man. He takes 3000 steps every day. Since 2004 he has made a decision...

Albert Camus, who died 60 years ago, continues to inspire defenders of freedom and human rights acti...

In 1973, 6 guides from the National Ski and Mountaineering School (ENSA), including Charles Daubas a...

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

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