"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.
Sometimes in April
2005
7.1/10
Trees of Peace
2021
7.2/10
Battleground
1949
6.7/10
Beasts of No Nation
2015
7.6/10
Tobruk
1967
6.4/10
Skin
2009
6.4/10
Lion of the Desert
1981
7.3/10
Mosul
2019
6.7/10
Waiting for the Barbarians
2019
5.9/10
The Wind and the Lion
1975
6.5/10
Walking with the Enemy
2014
6.3/10
All That's Left of You
2025
7.9/10
Shepherd: The Story of a Jewish Dog
2020
6.8/10
First They Killed My Father
2017
7.4/10
The Power of One
1992
7.5/10
I Was a Stranger
2025
6.8/10
Defiance
2008
6.8/10
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
1951
6.7/10
Karmouz War
2018
5.9/10
The Survivor
2022
6.8/10
Le porteur de cartable
2003
10/10
