french colonialism movies page 2

Pornotropic (2020)
7.2 / 10

Documentary, History

When French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-96) published her novel The Sea Wall in 1950, she came very close to winning the prestigious Prix Goncourt....

To Be Twenty in the Aures (1972)
7.4 / 10

Documentary, Drama, War

A group of refractory and pacifist Bretons is sent to Algeria. These beings confronted with the horrors of war gradually become killing machines. One...

The Inheritance (1975)
10 / 10

Drama, War

A harrowing picture of the heritage of colonialism, focusing on a man driven mad by torture but saved by his wife, who restores his sanity and leads...

Krim Belkacem (2014)
10 / 10

History, Drama, War

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...

Here Ends the World We've Known (2022)
6.5 / 10

Drama, History

1645. Guadeloupe. Ibátali, a Kalinago native and wife of a French colonist, leads Olaudah, an escaped African captive, on a journey where he may...

Breakdown (1982)
8 / 10

Drama

"Rupture is a look at a complex and little-known period in the recent history of Algeria, that of the thirties, a time when a political conscience...

The Price of Freedom (2007)
10 / 10

War, Drama

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

Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man (2006)
8.4 / 10

Documentary

Thomas Sankara, former president of Burkina Faso, was known as "the African Che", and became famous in Africa due to his innovative ideas, his...

The Winds of the Aures (1967)
6.6 / 10

Drama, War

Le Vent des Aurès – the first road movie of Algerian cinema – describes the transformations of the daily life of the Algerian people during the...

Traps (1994)
0 / 10

Drama

The year is 1950 and an English couple, Louise and Michael, have arrived in French-occupied Indochina to cover a story on a French-owned rubber...

Guns of Freedom (1961)
10 / 10

Documentary, War

“Les Fusils De La Liberté” (1961) is a docu-fiction which recounts the difficulties overcome by an ALN ​​detachment whose perilous mission...

Yaouled (1993)
10 / 10

Drama

Directed by Rachid Benallal.

Algerian Refugees (1958)
10 / 10

Documentary

Directed by Pierre Clément and Djamel-Eddine Chanderli, produced by the FLN Information Service in 1958, this film is a rare document. Pierre...

Paroles d'un Prisonnier Français de l'ALN (2010)
10 / 10

Documentary, War

The image of French prisoners was very often evoked in Algerian cinema and literature, but until today, no Algerian or even European report or...

La Tragédie du Roi Christophe (1965)
10 / 10

History

Gerboise Bleue (2009)
10 / 10

Documentary, Drama

"Gerboise bleue", the first French atomic test carried out on February 13, 1960 in the Algerian Sahara, is the starting point of France's nuclear...

Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art (2022)
8 / 10

Documentary

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

Yasmina (1961)
10 / 10

Drama

"Yasmina" filmed in 1961 in the middle of the Algerian war tells the story of a little Algerian girl with her hen and her family whose father was...

Les Sept Remparts De La Citadelle (2018)
10 / 10

Drama, War

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

Lost Mountain (2020)
10 / 10

Documentary

On November 1, 1954, the National Liberation Front of Algeria announced the war for the country's independence. France, colonizer since 1830,...