Anti Colonialism Movies
- 2020
Be Water
Be Water6.92020HD
In 1971, after being rejected by Hollywood, Bruce Lee returned to his parents’ homeland of Hong Kong to complete four iconic films. Charting...
- 1966
The Battle of Algiers
The Battle of Algiers7.881966HD
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...
- 1974
Hearts and Minds
Hearts and Minds7.7681974HD
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...
- 1975
Chronicle of the Years of Fire
Chronicle of the Years of Fire6.31975HD
A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian national movement from 1939 until the outbreak of the revolution on November 1, 1954, the...
- 1961
Sawt Echaâb
Sawt Echaâb101961HD
“La Voix du Peuple,” composed of archival photographs by René Vauthier and others, exposes the root causes of the armed conflict...
- 1958
Algerian Refugees
Algerian Refugees101958HD
Directed by Pierre Clément and Djamel-Eddine Chanderli, produced by the FLN Information Service in 1958, this film is a rare document. Pierre...
- 2004
Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers102004HD
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...
- 2021
The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation
The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation6.92021HD
An exhaustive explanation of how the military occupation of an invaded territory occurs and its consequences, using as a paradigmatic example the...
- 1967
A Propos D'Un Crime
A Propos D'Un Crime101967HD
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...
- 1995
Aimé Césaire, Une voix pour l'histoire
Aimé Césaire, Une voix pour l'histoire101995HD
A three-part study that introduces audiences to the celebrated Martinican author Aimé Césaire, who coined the term "négritude"...
- 1996
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask6.91996HD
Explores the life and work of the psychoanalytic theorist and activist Frantz Fanon who was born in Martinique, educated in Paris and worked in...
- 1976
Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre
Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre101976HD
Alternating interview segments, shots of Martinique landscapes and scenes from Aimé Césaire's play La Tragédie du roi Christophe...
- 1964
The Death Knell
The Death Knell101964HD
At the beginning of the 1960s, in Salisbury (now Harare), in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), the government of Ian Smith hanged three black...
- 1969
The Panafrican Festival in Algiers
The Panafrican Festival in Algiers101969HD
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...
- 1958
Algeria in Flames
Algeria in Flames8.51958HD
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...
- 1971
Pas De Blanc À La Une
Pas De Blanc À La Une101971HD
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...
- 1983
Philip Glass: Satyagraha
Philip Glass: Satyagraha101983HD
This luminous, visionary opera tells the story of how Mahatma Gandhi developed the philosophy of satyagraha, nonviolent active resistance, as a...
- 1965
Dawn of the Damned
Dawn of the Damned7.21965HD
This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is a film about death. Its most shocking sequences...
- 1965
So Young a Peace
So Young a Peace101965HD
The first fictional feature film produced in Algeria after independence, this film addresses one of the most worrying problems: that of childhood....
- 1983
The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting
The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting7.61983HD
“La Zerda and the songs of oblivion” (1982) is one of only two films made by the Algerian novelist Assia Djebar, with “La Nouba des...