French Colonialism Movies

The transformations of the daily life of the Algerian people during the destructive French occupation, then during the war of liberation. While...

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...

Illustrated with archival photographs, animations and live action, this film explores the history and historical and spiritual heritage of Emir Abd...

This docu-fiction recounts the difficulties overcome by an ALN ​​detachment whose perilous mission is to transport weapons and ammunition...

The film traces the story of a patrol of the Algerian National Liberation Army (ALN), whose mission is to transport a prisoner French soldier to the...

"Bamboula": this word was chosen in the 1980s for a chocolate cookie well known to children at the time. In 1994, he sponsored an Ivorian village set...

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...

The feature film “The seven ramparts of the citadel”, a fiction recounting the conflict between an Algerian family expropriated from its...

60 years ago, in the Algerian desert, an atomic bomb, equivalent to three or even four times Hiroshima, exploded. Named the “Blue...

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...

On October 17, 1961, in response to the curfew imposed on Muslim Algerians by Paris police prefect Maurice Papon, the FLN Federation of France...

In the midst of the Algerian liberation war, two characters, a meddah (traditional storyteller) and a guerrab (water distributor), having become...

1957, the town of Mostaganem, Algeria: the country is still under French occupation, and repression of the National Liberation Front is at its...

After the defeat of 1940, and faced with the unexpected collapse of French power, all eyes turned to a horizon of both hope and uncertainty: the...

The Second World War. French authorities ban political parties and unions. In Algeria, the leaders of political and trade union organizations were...

There is an interlinking history of violent European colonialism and the cultural legacy of ethnographic collections in institutions. This...