Algerian War

A string of events lead up to the bloody confrontation between a peaceful, 20,000 strong FLN-demonstration and a bloodthirsty police mob in the streets of Paris, on the night of October 17, 1961.

During the Algerian War, a man and woman from opposing sides fall in love with one another.

A French Foreign Legion commander is told to assemble a unit and capture an Algerian rebel leader. He gathers in his old unit, most of whom are no longer in top form. One is having nightmares of past indiscretions, another is now drinking, another has lost his nerve. He takes them in captures the leader, but then is unable to make it to the pick up. He encounters a rebel patrol and is trapped unless they can escape before their water runs out.

A drama about the Algerian struggle for independence from France after WWII.

In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.

In the seaside town of Boulogne, no one seems to be able to cope with their past, least of all Hélène, an antique furniture saleswoman, her stepson Bernard, and her former lover Alphonse.

The French army was very influential in how modern suppression of independence movements has been and is carried out. This documentary reveals why.

René Vautier's 1958 documentary shows the fight for Algerian independence from its French coloniser from the view point of sadoteur rebels.

Documentary about the police crackdown on the Algerian demonstrations in Paris in 1961.

Documentary filmmaker Jean-Michel Meurice and historian Benjamin Stora confront the history of the Algerian war of independence with the subjectivity of their own memory, while they were fighting in this conflict at the time.

Fifty years after the Independence of Algeria, the civil war 1954-62 is still a unknown subject for many people. This documentary brings along facts and data to understand why such events were a big trauma for both communities and by the way, explains the reason for the return to the power of the General de Gaulle (set up of a French constitution in 1958).

"During the first three years of the 1954-1957 Algerian war, François Mitterrand, future President of the Republic, was in turn Minister of the Interior, then Minister of Justice. He was one of the leading figures in the governments of the Fourth Republic, which applied a particularly repressive policy in Algeria. A formidable unsaid surrounded by these three long years. The film reveals, thanks to unpublished archives, that François Mitterrand, Minister of Justice of the Guy Mollet government, refused pardon, in more than 80% of cases, to FLN militants sentenced to death. Why, as Minister of Justice, the one who would abolish the death penalty in 1981, did he support the policy of the worst of the government of Guy Mollet? Step by step, the documentary follows the future President during these years which will lead the Fourth Republic to the abyss. He questions French and Algerian witnesses and relatives at the time. Among them: Gisèle Halimi, lawyer, Roland Dumas, lawyer and deputy of the UDSR in 1956, André Rousselet, former chief of staff of François Mitterrand, Robert Badinter, Minister of Justice from 1981 to 1986, Jean Daniel, journalist writer. »

Documentary on the French-Algerian conflict 1954-1962 which was never officially called a "war", including interviews with some of the survivors.

A married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch.