anti colonialism movies page 2

The Damned Of The Earth (1969)
10 / 10

Drama

Upon his death, a young African director, Abramo Malonga, bequeathed his first and last unfinished film to his former teacher, the Italian director...

Patrol in the East (1971)
8.5 / 10

War, Drama

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...

Under The Ashes (1990)
9 / 10

Drama, War

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

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...

Dead the Long Night (1979)
10 / 10

Drama, History

Directed by Ghaouti Bendedouche.

A People on the March (1963)
6.5 / 10

Documentary, War, History

In 1962, René Vautier, together with some Algerian friends, organised the audio-visual formation centre Ben Aknoun to encourage a "dialogue in...

Dawn of the Damned (1965)
7.2 / 10

Documentary, History, Drama

This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is a film about death. Its most shocking sequences...

Guerre aux images en Algérie (1985)
10 / 10

Documentary

Hiatos (Gaps) - 2021 (1969)
0 / 10

Hiatos is a performance art video that treats melancholy as a colonial wound. Through performance and dance, it reveals perspectives of time,...

La Tragédie du Roi Christophe (1965)
10 / 10

History

So Young a Peace (1965)
10 / 10

Drama, War

The first fictional feature film produced in Algeria after independence, this film addresses one of the most worrying problems: that of childhood....

Philip Glass: Satyagraha (1983)
10 / 10

Music

This luminous, visionary opera tells the story of how Mahatma Gandhi developed the philosophy of satyagraha, nonviolent active resistance, as a...

Die weiße Gefahr (1971)
10 / 10

Documentary

Algeria in Flames (1958)
8.5 / 10

Documentary, War

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 Aurès-Nementchas...

Mostefa Ben Boulaïd (2008)
6.5 / 10

Drama, War

The film revolves around the life of the martyr Mustapha Ben Bouleid (1917-1956), who was a member of the Algerian National Movement, who worked with...

How Much I Love You (1985)
10 / 10

Documentary

Beginning with a promotional reel encouraging farming investments in Algeria and ending with the secret 1950s nuclear tests that France conducted...

Fort Du Conquet Destruction of the Vautier Archives (1983)
10 / 10

Documentary

Resistance fighter under the occupation, committed to the FLN during the Algerian war, member of the Medvedkine group after May 1968 and defender of...

On The Trail Of Emir Abd El-Kader (2004)
10 / 10

Documentary

Abdelkader ibn Muhieddine (Arabic: عبد القادر بن محي الدين (ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥyiddīn), also known as Emir Abdelkader, or...

July Dust (1967)
10 / 10

Drama

“Poussières de Juillet”, produced in 1967 by Hachemi El-Chérif, is taken from a poem by Kateb Yacine. "We made a film on the return of the...

Algérie Tours Détours (2007)
10 / 10

Documentary

A documentary road movie with René Vautier In the aftermath of Algeria's independence, René Vautier, a militant filmmaker, considered "the dad" of...