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 .

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

These are the first images shot in the ALN maquis, camera in hand, at the end of 1956 and in 1957. T...

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

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

Between 1954-1962, one hundred to three hundred young French people refused to participate in the Al...

Three centuries of Venezuela's history as a Spanish colony are considered from economic, political a...

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

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

The image of French prisoners was very often evoked in Algerian cinema and literature, but until tod...

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

Immigrated to the Paris region since 1964, Kader decides to spend the summer holidays with his famil...

1962, at the end of the Algerian War, Algerian independence activists are released from Rennes priso...

He is a 75-year-old half-blind man. He takes 3000 steps every day. Since 2004 he has made a decision...

“La Zerda and the songs of oblivion” (1982) is one of only two films made by the Algerian novelist A...

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

In 2024, Abdelkrim Baba Aissa, aged 75, engages in a series of filmed interviews with Algerian journ...

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

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

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

In 1971, after being rejected by Hollywood, Bruce Lee returned to his parents’ homeland of Hong Kong...