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.
An account of the brief life of the writer Albert Camus (1913-1960), a Frenchman born in Algeria: hi...
The autobiographical account of the tormented life of a witness of the century: Louisa Ighilahriz, a...
Six o'clock in the morning, the sun rises behind the Djurdjura mountain. With precise gestures, lear...
The artistic journey of Dahmane El Harrachi, born in 1925 in Algiers, bears the mark of his experien...
Filmmaker Karim Aïnouz decides to take a boat, cross the Mediterranean, and embark on his first jour...
Raï Story is a musical journey in search of the Raï legend, Cheikha Remitti, in Oran, Algeria, where...
Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War de...
1953, colonized Algeria. Fanon, a young black psychiatrist is appointed head doctor at the Blida-Jo...
In 1971, after being rejected by Hollywood, Bruce Lee returned to his parents’ homeland of Hong Kong...
Has everything really been said about the Algerian war? Although the archives are opening up, almost...
Orientalism is a literary and artistic movement born in Western Europe in the 18th century. Through ...
Frantz Fanon alone embodies all the issues of French colonial history. Martinican resistance fighter...
The image of French prisoners was very often evoked in Algerian cinema and literature, but until tod...
Algeria from above is the first documentary made entirely from the sky on Algeria. Through the eye o...
This 17-minute documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of The Battle of Algie...
Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of g...
This exceptional, disturbing, and thought-provoking two-part documentary compares the atrocities com...
In the 18th century, the Barbary threat became serious. In July 1785, two American boats were return...