Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 27. Chapters: Algerie, histoires a ne pas dire, Al Asfour, A Few Days of Respite, Bab El-Oued City, Barakat!, C'est dimanche!, Chronicle of the Years of Fire, Dans le silence, je sens rouler la terre, Days of Glory (2006 film), Delice Paloma, Dust of Life (1995 film), Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther, Festival panafricain d Alger 1969, Frantz Fanon, une vie, un combat, une uvre, Gabbla, Garagouz, Gerboise bleue (film), Harragas, How Big Is Your Love, Inch'Allah Dimanche, Khouya, La Citadelle (film), La derniere image, La Maison jaune, Le Quotidien des automates, List of Algerian films, List of Algerian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Little Senegal (film), Masquerades (film), Normal!, Omar Gatlato, Outside the Law (2010 film), Peuple en marche, Rachida, Sandstorm (film), Sektou, The Battle of Algiers, The Repentant, The Winds of the Aures, Tomorrow, Algiers?, We Too Walked on the Moon, Z'har, Zabana!, Z (film). Excerpt: The Battle of Algiers (Italian: Arabic: French: ) is a 1966 war film based on occurrences during the Algerian War (1954 62) against The French Government in North Africa, the most prominent being the titular Battle of Algiers. It was directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. The film has been critically celebrated and often taken, by insurgent groups and states alike, as an important commentary on urban guerilla warfare. It occupies the 120th place on Empire Magazine's list of the 500 greatest movies of all time. Algeria was eventually liberated from the French, but Pontecorvo relegates that to an epilogue. He concentrates instead on the years between 1954 and 1957 when the guerrilla fighters regrouped and expanded into the casbah, only to face a systematic attempt by French paratroopers to wipe them out. His highly dramatic film is about the organisation of a guerrilla movement and the methods used to annihilate it by the colonial power. The film was banned for five years in France, where it was released cut in 1974. The Battle of Algiers reconstructs the events that occurred in the capital city of French Algeria between November 1954 and December 1957, during the Algerian War of Independence. The narrative begins with the organization of revolutionary cells in the Casbah. Then civil war between native Algerians and European settlers (pied-noirs) in which the sides exchange acts of increasing violence, leading to the introduction of French army paratroopers to hunt the National Liberation Front (FLN). The paratroopers are depicted as winning the battle by neutralizing the whole of the FLN leadership either through assassination or through capture. However, the film begins with a coda depicting demonstrations and rioting for independence by native Algerians, suggesting that although France won the Battle of Algiers, it lost the Algerian War. The tactics of the FLN guerrilla insurgency and the French counter insurgency, and the uglier incidents of the war, are shown. Coloni