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

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

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

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

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...

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

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Documentary dialogue with young women in Algiers on their experience of independence shortly after t...

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In this film, four key witnesses, who live in Algeria today, as full-fledged Agerians, show us what ...

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

Many of them participated in the struggle for Algerian independence. There are "those who believed i...