Originally there was a silence. That of Malek, the filmmaker’s father, who for years said nothing of his childhood in Algeria. And then, the need to break the silence, with a script that he gives to his children, to start telling his story. Several years later, the father and daughter finally make the journey to Mansourah, his native village: seeing his house, meeting other men who experienced the same heartbreak. Little by little, the film reveals what Malek, like many others, has long kept quiet about.

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

In 1964, Algeria, just two years after the end of the war of independence, found itself catapulted i...

Has everything really been said about the Algerian war? Although the archives are opening up, almost...

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

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

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

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

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

This documentary by director Claire Billet and historian Christophe Lafaye details the massive and s...

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

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

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

Frantz Fanon alone embodies all the issues of French colonial history. Martinican resistance fighter...

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

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