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.

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

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

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

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...

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...

It's the unforgivable story of the two hundred thousands harkis, the Arabs who fought alongside the ...

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

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

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

Beginning with a promotional reel encouraging farming investments in Algeria and ending with the sec...

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

In 1963, Rosans, a village in the Hautes-Alpes region depopulated by the rural exodus, welcomed Hark...

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

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

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

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