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.

In February 1966, Pierre Mazeaud and Lucien Berardini traveled to the Atakor massif, in the Hoggar m...

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

"Gerboise bleue", the first French atomic test carried out on February 13, 1960 in the Algerian Saha...

On November 1, 1954, the National Liberation Front of Algeria announced the war for the country's in...

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

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

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

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

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

"A country without artists is a dead country... I hope we are alive..." It is in this film by Fawzi ...

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

In 2024, Abdelkrim Baba Aissa, aged 75, engages in a series of filmed interviews with Algerian journ...

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

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

Albert Camus, who died 60 years ago, continues to inspire defenders of freedom and human rights acti...

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

The image of French prisoners was very often evoked in Algerian cinema and literature, but until tod...

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

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