Beginning with a promotional reel encouraging farming investments in Algeria and ending with the secret 1950s nuclear tests that France conducted using Algerian prisoners, How Much I Love You appropriates archival footage produced by the French colonial powers in Algeria. Meddour’s approach is disarmingly simple and yet awe-inspiring—his caustic undoing of colonial discourse is underscored by a liberating release of humor.
Structured as a labyrinth-like game and inspired by Jorge Luis Borges, Aleph is a travelogue of expe...
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...
“La Zerda and the songs of oblivion” (1982) is one of only two films made by the Algerian novelist A...
The artistic journey of Dahmane El Harrachi, born in 1925 in Algiers, bears the mark of his experien...
Oversand is one of the first films about free climbing, the third film in a series of three with "Ov...
On September 5, 1960, the trial of about twenty French activists from the "Jeanson Network" began, s...
These are the first images shot in the ALN maquis, camera in hand, at the end of 1956 and in 1957. T...
On August 5, 1928, after 2 hours and 32 minutes of racing, the 71st rooster wearing the bib entered ...
Festival panafricain d'Alger is a documentary by William Klein of the music and dance festival held ...
Documentary on the beginnings of Algerian independence filmed during the summer of 1962 in Algiers. ...
Orientalism is a literary and artistic movement born in Western Europe in the 18th century. Through ...
Raï Story is a musical journey in search of the Raï legend, Cheikha Remitti, in Oran, Algeria, where...
An emblematic figure in the defense of Berber culture, Mouloud Mammeri (1917-1989) experienced numer...
Between 1954-1962, one hundred to three hundred young French people refused to participate in the Al...
This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is...
Who remembers Mohamed Zinet? In the eyes of French spectators who reserve his face and his frail sil...
Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of g...
This 17-minute documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of The Battle of Algie...
Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War de...