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 .
Born in Berlin in 1896, Lotte Eisner became famous for her passionate involvement in the world of bo...
A compelling personal journey with David Stratton, as he relates the fascinating development of our ...
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 ...
Beginning with a promotional reel encouraging farming investments in Algeria and ending with the sec...
A portrait of film critic Carlos Boyero, one of the most followed and feared figures in Spanish cine...
HECKLER is a comedic feature documentary exploring the increasingly critical world we live in. After...
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...