Similarly, until the final few months of the conflict in 1962, the ‘Battle of Algiers’ was the one moment of sustained urban guerrilla warfare.

The Battle of Algiers is also an example of Italian neorealism, a major film movement coming out of mid-twentieth century Italy.

Having been screened by the special operations department of the Pentagon last August (see Charles Paul Freund’s piece in Slate), The Battle of Algiers is now scheduled for a run at the New York ...

Upon its release in 1966, Gillo Pontecorvo’s “The Battle of Algiers” became an instant art-house sensation and garnered three Academy Award nominations. Since then, it has been both the ...

Challenged by terrorist tactics and guerrilla warfare in Iraq, the Pentagon recently held a screening of The Battle of Algiers, the film that in the late 1960s was required viewing and something ...

Saadi Yacef was an Algerian guerrilla leader who fought for and eventually helped win the North African nation’s independence from colonial France in 1962 after a bloody eight-year war against ...

Half a century after its debut, The Battle of Algiers has a permanent parking spot in the film canon. After taking home the Golden Lion at the 1966 Venice Film Festival, it was nominated for three ...

The Battle of Algiers was directed by the Italian Gillo Pontecorvo and produced by Antonio Musu for Igor Film and Yacef Saadi for Casbah Films. Released in 1966, the film is based on real events ...

Thus the Battle of Algiers is already, or about to be, lost. But not before a close-up on La Pointe’s pained face fades from focus and we’re thrust back three years, to 1954.

The Battle of Algiers is also an example of Italian neorealism, a major film movement coming out of mid-twentieth century Italy.