The bitter divisions within the FLN are ignored. Instead, Gillo Pontecorvo, in his 1966 film, The Battle of Algiers, presents the war uniquely in terms of the FLN against the French paratroopers.

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 ...

The Battle of Algiers was filmed in 1965 as a co-production between an Italian creative team and the new Algerian FLN (Front de Libération Nationale) government, whose representative Yacef ...

That “Battle of Algiers,” not Pontecorvo’s outdated masterpiece, is replete with examples and parallels that ought to be of great interest and relevance to ourselves.

The 1956-1957 battle became immortalized in the 1966 movie “The Battle of Algiers,” directed by the Italian Gillo Pontecorvo. Based in large part on Mr. Yacef’s memoir, the drama was ...

Nearly 40 years after it was made, The Battle of Algiers will return to a small number of U.S. theaters this month. A documentary-style dramatization of the French occupation of Algeria, the ...

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 ...

With Laleh Khalili, author of the book Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies, on the film The Battle of Algiers. is a 1966 war film based on occurrences during the Algerian War (1954 ...

If you haven’t seen Gilles Pontocorvo’s 1966 classic “The Battle of Algiers”–or it’s been a while since you’ve seen it–I can’t think of a better film that resonates with America ...