This 17-minute documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of The Battle of Algiers (1966), released in 2004. An in-depth look at the Battle of Algiers through the eyes of five established and accomplished filmmakers; Spike Lee, Steven Soderbergh, Oliver Stone, Julian Schnabel and Mira Nair. They discuss how the shots, cinematography, set design, sound and editing directly influenced their own work and how the film's sequences look incredibly realistic, despite the claim that everything in the film was staged .
Hell on Earth is a documentary about Ken Russell's 1971 film, The Devils. Film critic Mark Kermode c...
On November 1, 1954, near Ghassira, a small village lost in the Aurès, a couple of French teachers a...
Algiers. From the port to the souks, passing through the Jardin d'Essai, Dominique Cabrera transport...
“Forgetting is complicit in recidivism,” says the commentary of this film dedicated to the demonstra...
Ahmed Malek’s name might have been forgotten by his fellow Algerians but his timeless tunes certainl...
El Gusto is the story of an orchestra of Jewish and Muslim musicians torn apart by war 50 years ago,...
A three-part study that introduces audiences to the celebrated Martinican author Aimé Césaire, who c...
Originally there was a silence. That of Malek, the filmmaker’s father, who for years said nothing of...
In the 1980s, Algeria experienced a tumultuous social context which reached its peak during the riot...
Director Djamel Kelfaoui pays tribute to the great singer Cheb Hasni, king of sentimental raï, who b...
On August 9, 2016, a young Cree man named Colten Boushie died from a gunshot to the back of his head...
Bisan Owda, journalist and influencer collaborator of the media AJ+, is at the forefront of reportin...
Jacqueline Gozlan - who left Algeria with her parents in 1961 - nostalgically retraces the history o...
Algeria, summer 1962, eight hundred thousand French people left their native land in a tragic exodus...
The autobiographical account of the tormented life of a witness of the century: Louisa Ighilahriz, a...
The exceptional portrait of a pacifist general, the only senior officer to have spoken out against t...
A warm, attentive chronicle of everyday life in a small Algerian town, with the backdrop of the inha...