"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.

Roberto Muniz, nicknamed "Mahmoud the Argentinian," was a revolutionary fighter who joined the Natio...

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...

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

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

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

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

During the Algerian war (1954-1962), some French people helped the F.L.N. in France.

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

He is a 75-year-old half-blind man. He takes 3000 steps every day. Since 2004 he has made a decision...

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

Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it be...

“La Zerda and the songs of oblivion” (1982) is one of only two films made by the Algerian novelist A...

Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo’s feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1...
Achour is thirty. Night and day, he walks. Rebellious soul, he crisscrosses Alger and its neighborho...

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

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