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 .

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

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

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

"A country without artists is a dead country... I hope we are alive..." It is in this film by Fawzi ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The architect André Ravéreau spent a large part of his life in Algeria, he is today an essential ref...

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