"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 killed in a bombing by the French colonial army of occupation. The family, after a long journey, heads towards the refugee camps on the Tunisian border. Produced by the Cinema Service of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic (GPRA) in the midst of the war of independence, these films were intended to re-inform the population and international public opinion on the abuses committed by the French colonial army: torture, arrests and arbitrary executions, napalm bombings, fires in douars, entire villages wiped off the map, etc. which the French media described as a "pacification" campaign. The latter censoring or reorienting any images that could harm the colonial narrative.
Trees of Peace
2021
7.2/10
Skin
2009
6.4/10
Sometimes in April
2005
7.1/10
Beasts of No Nation
2015
7.6/10
Lion of the Desert
1981
7.3/10
Battleground
1949
6.7/10
I Was a Stranger
2025
6.9/10
First They Killed My Father
2017
7.4/10
Waiting for the Barbarians
2020
5.9/10
Defiance
2008
6.8/10
The Survivor
2022
6.8/10
Tobruk
1967
6.4/10
All That's Left of You
2025
8.0/10
The Wind and the Lion
1975
6.5/10
Glory
1989
7.5/10
The Power of One
1992
7.4/10
Mosul
2019
6.7/10
Walking with the Enemy
2014
6.3/10
Escape from Pretoria
2020
7.2/10
Holy Lands
2019
6.1/10
The Mill of M. Fabre
1983
10/10
