"Algeria, The Two Soldiers" tells the true story of two young French soldiers during the Algerian War, who were driven in two completely opposite directions by the same keen sense of honor: Noël Favrelière deserted to free a young Algerian Muslim prisoner who was going to be executed, and René Técourt, to continue the fight for French Algeria alongside the OAS ultras. Two emblematic examples, which describe in a direct, carnal way, what happened there.

During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the met...

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

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...

A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.

A French teacher in a small Algerian village during the Algerian War forms an unexpected bond with a...

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

Djamila, a young Algerian woman living with her brother Hadi and her uncle Mustafa in the Casbah dis...

A childhood episode comes back to the memory of a man with no land

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

The Second World War. French authorities ban political parties and unions. In Algeria, the leaders o...

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

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

In Algeria in 1954, in a village in the Aurès region, poverty reigns over peasants enslaved by colon...

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

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

In the 18th century, the Barbary threat became serious. In July 1785, two American boats were return...

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