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 .

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

In the fall of 1987, Philippe Haas accompanied the sculptor Richard Long to the Algerian Sahara and ...

Filmmaker Karim Aïnouz decides to take a boat, cross the Mediterranean, and embark on his first jour...

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

"Gerboise bleue", the first French atomic test carried out on February 13, 1960 in the Algerian Saha...

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

Jean Sénac, born in Béni Saf in Algeria in 1926 and died in Algiers in 1973, is today considered one...

The climbing couple Heinz Mariacher and Luisa Iovane abandon their usual winter training spot to go ...

Albert Camus died at 46 years old on January 4, 1960, two years after his Nobel Prize in literature....

In 1967, Visconti came to Algiers for the filming of The Stranger with Mastroianni and Anna Karina. ...

Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo’s feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1...

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

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

In 1950, the explorer Roger Frison-Roche made a crossing of more than a thousand kilometers on the b...

Gathering for a Christmas lunch, the film critics and writers of Discovering Film discuss the merits...

HECKLER is a comedic feature documentary exploring the increasingly critical world we live in. After...

This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is...

Pierre Clément, student and photographer of René Vauthier, first accompanied him to Tunisia to make ...

Albert Camus, who died 60 years ago, continues to inspire defenders of freedom and human rights acti...

This docu-fiction recounts the difficulties overcome by an ALN detachment whose perilous mission i...