French Colonialism Movies

  • 2010
    François Mitterrand et la guerre d'Algérie

    François Mitterrand et la guerre d'Algérie

    François Mitterrand et la guerre d'Algérie

    102010HD

    François Mitterrand et la guerre d'Algérie
  • 2008
    Arezki, L'Indigène

    Arezki, L'Indigène

    Arezki, L'Indigène

    62008HD

    In 1895, young journalist Albertine Auclair arrives in the Kabylie during a family visit. The beauty of the region seduces her but she soon learns of...

    Arezki, L'Indigène
  • 2003
    The Law of Silence

    The Law of Silence

    The Law of Silence

    92003HD

    The Law of Silence, a final-year documentary by Moïra Chappedelaine-Vautier at Femis, examines the 1963 Amnesty Law and the consequences it had...

    The Law of Silence
  • 1972
    To Be Twenty in the Aures

    To Be Twenty in the Aures

    To Be Twenty in the Aures

    7.51972HD

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

    To Be Twenty in the Aures
  • 1991
    Children of the Sun

    Children of the Sun

    Children of the Sun

    91991HD

    Children of the Sun
  • 2011
    Manifesto of the 121

    Manifesto of the 121

    Manifesto of the 121

    102011HD

    On September 5, 1960, the trial of about twenty French activists from the "Jeanson Network" began, supporters in the metropolis of the action of the...

    Manifesto of the 121
  • 2022
    Faithful

    Faithful

    Faithful

    6.1612022HD

    1956. Algeria is a French colony. Fernand and Helene are madly in love. Fernand is an activist, fighting for independence alongside the Algerians....

    Faithful
  • 1976
    Black and White in Color

    Black and White in Color

    Black and White in Color

    6.3491976HD

    French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their...

    Black and White in Color
  • 2022
    Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art

    Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art

    Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art

    7.32022HD

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

    Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art
  • 1963
    Le Serment

    Le Serment

    Le Serment

    101963HD

    The Oath, a TV film produced by Algerian television in 1963 following the end of the war of independence, tells the story of young Algerians who...

    Le Serment
  • 1971
    Patrol in the East

    Patrol in the East

    Patrol in the East

    81971HD

    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...

    Patrol in the East
  • 2014
    Krim Belkacem

    Krim Belkacem

    Krim Belkacem

    102014HD

    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...

    Krim Belkacem
  • 1993
    Yaouled

    Yaouled

    Yaouled

    101993HD

    A young Arab boy, a teenager "Yaouled", who lives on the streets and scrapes by doing odd jobs: shoe shining, street vending, etc. The film tells the...

    Yaouled
  • 1975
    Les Enfants de Novembre

    Les Enfants de Novembre

    Les Enfants de Novembre

    101975HD

    In the streets of the Casbah of Algiers, an FLN fighter pursued by the colonial police hands over confidential documents to Mourad, an Algerian child...

    Les Enfants de Novembre
  • 2020
    Pornotropic

    Pornotropic

    Pornotropic

    72020HD

    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....

    Pornotropic
  • 1961
    Yasmina

    Yasmina

    Yasmina

    101961HD

    "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...

    Yasmina
  • 1965
    La Tragédie du Roi Christophe

    La Tragédie du Roi Christophe

    La Tragédie du Roi Christophe

    101965HD

    La Tragédie du Roi Christophe
  • 2000
    Jean-Marie Tjibaou ou le rêve d'indépendance

    Jean-Marie Tjibaou ou le rêve d'indépendance

    Jean-Marie Tjibaou ou le rêve d'indépendance

    102000HD

    Through the commitment of Jean-Marie Tjibaou, this documentary traces the history of the march of the Kanak people in search of their independence....

    Jean-Marie Tjibaou ou le rêve d'indépendance
  • 1987
    Gates of Silence

    Gates of Silence

    Gates of Silence

    101987HD

    In 1955, what was known as the "Algerian War" gradually escalated into all-out war, and the French army inexorably transformed into a soldiery...

    Gates of Silence
  • 2023
    Vichy in the Colonies

    Vichy in the Colonies

    Vichy in the Colonies

    82023HD

    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...

    Vichy in the Colonies