The Battle Of Algiers

One of the first and greatest drama-docs, Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1966 The Battle of Algiers chronicles the bitter post-war struggle of Algerian nationalists to rid themselves of French colonial rule. So potent is the movie’s black-and-white realism that it’s hard to believe that not a scrap of newsreel footage was used in its making.

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