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.

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

In 1950, the explorer Roger Frison-Roche made a crossing of more than a thousand kilometers on the b...
A short documentary that emerge at the center of round table debate, participating in it there's thr...

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

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

Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of g...

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