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 .

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By ending the life of Jean Senac on August 30, 1973 in Algiers, his assassins believed they would si...

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

Documentary on the French Alpine expedition to Hoggar in Algeria, starring Roger Frison-Roche, Raymo...