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 .

Óscar Peyrou is a veteran Spanish film critic who writes his reviews according to a very peculiar me...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

In the 18th century, the Barbary threat became serious. In July 1785, two American boats were return...

It's the unforgivable story of the two hundred thousands harkis, the Arabs who fought alongside the ...

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

This documentary by director Claire Billet and historian Christophe Lafaye details the massive and s...

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

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

Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of g...