Algiers. From the port to the souks, passing through the Jardin d'Essai, Dominique Cabrera transports us to the land where she was born, on the other side of the Mediterranean "where the sea is saltier". If most of the pieds-noirs left Algeria in the summer of 1962, some -a minority- remained. By going to meet them, the director makes her own inner journey.

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...

The life of Camille Claudel, a French sculptor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later...

In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the co...

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

In the heart of the Jura mountains, a call resounds through the forest. The silhouette of a Eurasian...

Published in Paris in 1954, Story of O was an immediate bestseller and literary scandal: an elegantl...

Well known for its exploration of seduction and revenge, the “Dangerous Liaisons” by Choderlos de La...

October 2018, France. Macron’s government decrees a tax increase on the price of fuel. A wave of pro...

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

Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of g...
Their names are Chorowicz, Cyroulnik, Glichtzman, Feldhandler... They were born in France, after the...

Parisian authorities clash with the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) in director Alain Tasma’s re...

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

Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had...

In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native...

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

In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domesti...

Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry ...