La battaglia di Algeri
Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his...
release : 1966.09.08popularis : 35.167
Hearts and Minds
Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War depended upon the U.S. military winning the "hearts...
release : 1974.12.20popularis : 6.933
Be Water
In 1971, after being rejected by Hollywood, Bruce Lee returned to his parents’ homeland of Hong Kong to complete four iconic films. Charting...
release : 2020.01.25popularis : 3.672
Pas De Blanc À La Une
Pas De Blanc À La Une, by Youcef Bouchouchi, treatises the brutality of the conflict during the war of independence in Algeria from 1854 to...
release : 1971.01.01popularis : 3.669
A Propos D'Un Crime
In 1967, Visconti came to Algiers for the filming of The Stranger with Mastroianni and Anna Karina. Camus, during his lifetime, had always refused to...
release : 1967.01.01popularis : 3.611
Sous La Cendre
The Second World War. French authorities ban political parties and unions. In Algeria, the leaders of political and trade union organizations were...
release : 1990.01.01popularis : 3.581
Hiatos (Gaps) - 2021
Hiatos is a performance art video that treats melancholy as a colonial wound. Through performance and dance, it reveals perspectives of time,...
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 3.549
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
Explores the life and work of the psychoanalytic theorist and activist Frantz Fanon who was born in Martinique, educated in Paris and worked in...
release : 1996.10.09popularis : 3.395
Chronique des Années de Braise
A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian national movement from 1939 until the outbreak of the revolution on November 1, 1954, the...
release : 1975.11.26popularis : 2.676
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi tells the true story of Lakshmibai, the historic Queen of Jhansi who fiercely led her army against the British East India...
release : 2019.11.15popularis : 2.37
Algérie en flammes
These are the first images shot in the ALN maquis, camera in hand, at the end of 1956 and in 1957. These war images taken in the...
release : 1958.01.02popularis : 2.31
The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation
An exhaustive explanation of how the military occupation of an invaded territory occurs and its consequences, using as a paradigmatic example the...
release : 2021.04.25popularis : 2.288
Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
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...
release : 2004.08.01popularis : 2.111
Serkadji
In 1982, Hadj Rahim directed "Serkadji", a fiction film about the men's quarters of the Barberousse military prison in Algiers, where hundreds of FLN...
release : 1982.01.01popularis : 2.103
Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté
Frantz Fanon alone embodies all the issues of French colonial history. Martinican resistance fighter, he enlisted, like millions of colonial...
release : 2021.11.07popularis : 2.019
Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar
In 1940s British India, archnemeses Mallikajaan and Fareedan are locked in a battle of succession of Heeramandi, an elite house of courtesans, while...
release : 2024.05.01popularis : 21.913
Decolonisation
The history of decolonization from the point of view of colonized peoples, an epic story that still resonates and reverberates to this day.
release : 2020.01.07popularis : 3.871
Indonesia Merdeka!
Documentary from 1976 about the Indonesian struggle for independence. Unique archive footage and interviews with former vice-president Mahammed Hatta...
release : 1976.12.01popularis : 1.085