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Battle of Algiers, The (1965)

aka: Battaglia di Algeri, La

Director

Gillo Pontecorvo

Producer

Antonio Musi; Yacef Saadi

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 116 minutes), £19.99

A realistic reconstruction of the fight for liberation in Algiers between 1954 and 1957, resulting in 1962 in a free Algerian state. The film was banned in France for fear of inciting civil unrest, but it...

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My Life As a Terrorist (2005)

Director

Alexander Oey

Subject

Psychology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 70 minutes), $99.00

On December 21, 1975, six terrorists from the Revolutionary Cells, led by Carlos ‘The Jackal’ forced their way into the conference room of the OPEC headquarters in Vienna and took seventy ministers...

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Detroit (2017)

Director

Kathryn Bigelow

Subject

American Studies; Film studies

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 143 minutes), £4.99

A report of gunshots prompts the Detroit Police to search the Algiers Motel. A group of young people staying there are forcefully and viciously interrogated by the riot task force. By the end of the night,...

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ActualitÉs FranÇaises, Les: No 6 (1945 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

This issue of the post-liberation newsreel released in February 1945 shows 1) students at the Ecole de Hautes Etudes Commerciales in Paris donating blood for wounded soldiers; 2) Tollet, president of the...

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