Movies: Liberation war

  • 1970
    Opium and the Stick

    Opium and the Stick (1970)

    Opium and the Stick

    7.51970HD

    In 1950, in Algeria, in a village in Kabylia, Algerian resistance fighters resisted the French occupation army. Bachir returns to the village to escape the clashes ravaging Algiers. In Thala, he has two brothers, Ali and Belaïd. The first is engaged ...

    Opium and the Stick
  • 1973
    Sambizanga

    Sambizanga (1973)

    Sambizanga

    6.91973HD

    Domingos is a member of an African liberation movement, arrested by the Portuguese secret police, after bloody events in Angola. His wife goes from a prison station to another, trying in vain to find out where he is....

    Sambizanga
  • 1975
    Chronicle of the Years of Fire

    Chronicle of the Years of Fire (1975)

    Chronicle of the Years of Fire

    6.31975HD

    A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian national movement from 1939 until the outbreak of the revolution on November 1, 1954, the film unequivocally demonstrates that the "Algerian War" is not an accident of history, but a slow proces...

    Chronicle of the Years of Fire
  • 1958
    Jamila, the Algerian

    Jamila, the Algerian (1958)

    Jamila, the Algerian

    71958HD

    Djamila, a young Algerian woman living with her brother Hadi and her uncle Mustafa in the Casbah district of Algiers under the French occupation of Algeria, sees the full extent of injustice, tyranny and cruelty on his compatriots by French soldiers....

    Jamila, the Algerian
  • 2014
    Ils ont libéré Paris !

    Ils ont libéré Paris ! (2014)

    Ils ont libéré Paris !

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    Ils ont libéré Paris !
  • 1983
    Song of Autumn

    Song of Autumn (1983)

    Song of Autumn

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    Chants d’Automne (Song of Autumn), is a story of daily life on a colonial farm, at the start of the war of liberation in Algeria, describing individual and group behavior in this context. An unthinkable, even dangerous, romantic relationship, born in...

    Song of Autumn
  • 2018
    Les Sept Remparts De La Citadelle

    Les Sept Remparts De La Citadelle (2018)

    Les Sept Remparts De La Citadelle

    102018HD

    The feature film “The seven ramparts of the citadel”, a fiction recounting the conflict between an Algerian family expropriated from its land and a bloodthirsty settler; by director Ahmed Rachedi. Adapted from the eponymous novel by Mohamed Maarafia,...

    Les Sept Remparts De La Citadelle
  • 1963
    Le Serment

    Le Serment (1963)

    Le Serment

    101963HD

    The Oath, a TV film produced by Algerian television in 1963 following the end of the war of independence, tells the story of young Algerians who joined the resistance after the bloody repressions of May 1945 in Constantinois by the French colonial ar...

    Le Serment
  • 1969
    Liberty or Death

    Liberty or Death (1969)

    Liberty or Death

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    In а short but heroic campaign, Bulgarian poet and revolutionary Hristo Botev leads a band of rebels from the Danube to the Balkan Range....

    Liberty or Death
  • 2014
    Krim Belkacem

    Krim Belkacem (2014)

    Krim Belkacem

    102014HD

    This film retraces the combat journey of Krim Belkacem, one of the leading figures of the Algerian War. When he left the Dellys barracks in October 1945, the day after the Second World War, Krim Belkacem was 23 years old. He is a man revolted by the ...

    Krim Belkacem
  • 1961
    Guns of Freedom

    Guns of Freedom (1961)

    Guns of Freedom

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    “Les Fusils De La Liberté” (1961) is a docu-fiction which recounts the difficulties overcome by an ALN ​​detachment whose perilous mission is to transport weapons and ammunition from Tunisia across the Algerian Sahara during the Algerian liberation w...

    Guns of Freedom
  • 2018
    La Bataille d'Alger, l'empreinte

    La Bataille d'Alger, l'empreinte (2018)

    La Bataille d'Alger, l'empreinte

    102018HD

    Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo’s feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1965). Through archive images, extracts from the film and interviews with personalities, the filmmaker retraces the journey of a major work - from the ...

    La Bataille d'Alger, l'empreinte
  • 2007
    From Normandy to the Rhine

    From Normandy to the Rhine (2007)

    From Normandy to the Rhine

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    From Normandy to the Rhine
  • 1993
    Taah Makhroush

    Taah Makhroush (1993)

    Taah Makhroush

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    The play deals with the post-liberation stage of Kuwait from the Iraqi invasion, highlighting the political, economic and social issues and problems that came after liberation in a satirical comedy mold....

    Taah Makhroush
  • 1967
    The Way

    The Way (1967)

    The Way

    101967HD

    The Algerian War is seen through the eyes of a group of Algerian freedom-fighters who have been captured and incarcerated in French-run military prisons both in France and Algeria. In addition to attempts at escape, this prison drama also includes pr...

    The Way
  • 1963
    A People on the March

    A People on the March (1963)

    A People on the March

    6.51963HD

    In 1962, René Vautier, together with some Algerian friends, organised the audio-visual formation centre Ben Aknoun to encourage a "dialogue in images" between the two factions. Together with his students he made a film that shows the history of the A...

    A People on the March
  • 2017
    Algeria, The Two Soldiers

    Algeria, The Two Soldiers (2017)

    Algeria, The Two Soldiers

    102017HD

    "Algeria, The Two Soldiers" tells the true story of two young French soldiers during the Algerian War, who were driven in two completely opposite directions by the same keen sense of honor: Noël Favrelière deserted to free a young Algerian Muslim pri...

    Algeria, The Two Soldiers
  • 2009
    Daniel Timsit, l’Algérien

    Daniel Timsit, l’Algérien (2009)

    Daniel Timsit, l’Algérien

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    Daniel Timsit, l’Algérien
  • 2020
    Lost Mountain

    Lost Mountain (2020)

    Lost Mountain

    102020HD

    On November 1, 1954, the National Liberation Front of Algeria announced the war for the country's independence. France, colonizer since 1830, hastened to reinforce its military contingent in the four corners of the country and to prevent the advance ...

    Lost Mountain