In the streets of the Casbah of Algiers, an FLN fighter pursued by the colonial police hands over confidential documents to Mourad, an Algerian child shouting newspapers who must at all costs pass them on to the resistance. But the police are on their trail and will do anything to get them back.

In colonial Vietnam, dashing French naval captain Jean-Baptiste, wealthy plantation owner Éliane Dev...

In Algeria in 1954, in a village in the Aurès region, poverty reigns over peasants enslaved by colon...

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set ad...

“Poussières de Juillet”, produced in 1967 by Hachemi El-Chérif, is taken from a poem by Kateb Yacine...

Néfissa, a student in Algiers, returns to her village in the south in the summer. Her father wants h...

A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful pris...

In 1971, the Algerian government nationalized hydrocarbons. The consequences of this decision on the...

Selim Mechoubine, a young man of 28, is the eldest of a large family. In the cramped accommodation h...

The year is 1950 and an English couple, Louise and Michael, have arrived in French-occupied Indochin...

During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the met...

Two deaf and dumb children. She is the daughter of an American Oil engineer. He is the son of an Alg...

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

In Algiers in 1993, while the civil war is starting, Mrs Osmane's tenants have to endure her bad tem...

As the Algerian War draws to a close, a teenager with a girlfriend starts feeling homosexual urges f...

This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conq...

The son of a French colonialist in Algeria returns to Algeria after learning that his father is ill....

A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, an...

When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped ...

French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their Ger...

While being imprisoned on a remote island for leading a naval-yard workers' strike, a man reminisces...