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

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

A documentary focusing on American conscientious objectors during WWII.

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

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...

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

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

Illustrated with archival photographs, animations and live action, this film explores the history an...

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

Filmmaker Karim Aïnouz decides to take a boat, cross the Mediterranean, and embark on his first jour...

In 1994, at over seventy years old, Gilberte and William Sportisse, threatened by the FIS, arrived f...

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

In the fall of 1987, Philippe Haas accompanied the sculptor Richard Long to the Algerian Sahara and ...

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

Albert Camus died at 46 years old on January 4, 1960, two years after his Nobel Prize in literature....

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Through the commitment of Jean-Marie Tjibaou, this documentary traces the history of the march of th...