Anti Colonialism Movies

Collectively directed by the members of the Centre audiovisuel d'Alger at Ben Aknoun, the film traces, in two parts, Algeria's recent history,...

This singular 6-part essay film on the history of the state of Rhode Island illustrates the adage that the universal is best reached via the...

The life of Michèle Firk — a trailblazing French journalist, film critic, aspiring director and communist activist involved in various...

Composed of archive images narrated by the writer, anthropologist and linguist Mouloud Mammeri, the film offers a reflection on the anti-colonialist...

An exhaustive explanation of how the military occupation of an invaded territory occurs and its consequences, using as a paradigmatic example the...

From the early 1960s to the mid-1970s, independent Algeria provided significant support to anti-colonial movements and revolutionaries worldwide....

Who was Frantz Fanon, the author of Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks, this Pan-African thinker and psychiatrist engaged in...

The exceptional portrait of a pacifist general, the only senior officer to have spoken out against torture. This precious testimony still remains...

This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is a film about death. Its most shocking sequences...

Two high-school students, one French and one Algerian, have grown up together. Their friendship initially crosses the national and political division...

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...

In 1936, Gaston Revel entered the École Normale in Algiers, where he was supposed to learn how to "educate the native." It was also during...

Festival panafricain d'Alger is a documentary by William Klein of the music and dance festival held 40 years ago in the streets and in venues all...

In Portugal, during the night of April 24-25, 1974, a peaceful uprising put an end to the last government of the Estado Novo, the authoritarian...

This biographical docudrama traces the life of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, from his birth in Alsace, up to the age of 30 when he made the decision to go...

Upon his death, a young African director, Abramo Malonga, bequeathed his first and last unfinished film to his former teacher, the Italian director...

In Algiers, in June 1957, Maurice Audin, a 25-year-old mathematician, was arrested by French paratroopers. His wife, Josette, and their three...

Three centuries of Venezuela's history as a Spanish colony are considered from economic, political and social standpoints; evocations of the past are...

A childhood episode comes back to the memory of a man with no land

Marizette, Christiane, Pierre, Léon, José... are some of the actors, funny and moving, of an incredible struggle, that of the peasants...