On November 1, 1954, near Ghassira, a small village lost in the Aurès, a couple of French teachers and an Algerian boss were the first civilian victims of a seven-year war which would lead to the independence of Algeria. More than fifty years later, Malek Bensmaïl returns to this Chaoui village, which has become “the cradle of the Algerian revolution”, to film, throughout the seasons, its inhabitants, its school and its children.

The Desert Rocker is an intimate, witty and profound portrait of the extraordinary Hasna El Becharia...

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set ad...

In 1950, the explorer Roger Frison-Roche made a crossing of more than a thousand kilometers on the b...

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

In Algiers in 1993, while the civil war is starting, Mrs Osmane's tenants have to endure her bad tem...

In the midst of the Algerian war for independence, a group of fighters is trapped in the mountains, ...

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

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

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

In prison in colonial Algeria, shortly after the end of the Second World War, three indigenous cellm...

Between 1954-1962, one hundred to three hundred young French people refused to participate in the Al...

Habiba Djahnine went to meet activists who continue to take action. To meet them, to capture them in...

Rabie is a kid from Sétif in 1980, trying to collect money to buy a wheelchair for his paralyzid sis...

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

1962, at the end of the Algerian War, Algerian independence activists are released from Rennes priso...

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

Five young Italian climbers, Paolo Grunanger, Lorenzo Marimonti, Pietro Meciani, Lodovico Gaetani an...

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

Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after s...