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.

The first French anti-colonialist film, derived from an assignment in which the director was to docu...

In 1963, Rosans, a village in the Hautes-Alpes region depopulated by the rural exodus, welcomed Hark...

Documentary edited from testimonies on the torture of people who experienced the war. Some witnesses...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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