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.

Dubai - the city of controversies. Six individuals go through personal insecurities, cultural pressu...

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

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

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

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

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

Born to an Algerian father and a Sicilian mother in Tunisia, I have always been wealthy of three cul...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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