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 Desert Rocker is an intimate, witty and profound portrait of the extraordinary Hasna El Becharia...

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

A documentary focusing on American conscientious objectors during WWII.

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A short documentary that emerge at the center of round table debate, participating in it there's thr...

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

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

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

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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...

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On October 4, 2018, France celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Fifth Republic. It is a republic b...

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

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

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

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