The Battle of Algiers - 1966
This highly political film about the Algerian struggle for independence from France took "Best Film" honors at the 1966 Venice Film Festival. The bulk of the film is shot in flashback, presented as the memor... More »
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The Battle of Algiers (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Battle of Algiers (Italian: ) is a war film released in 1966. It is based on occurrences during the Algerian War (1954–62) against French colonial rule in North Africa. It was directed by Gillo...
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Battle of Algiers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Battle of Algiers may refer to: • The bombardment of Algiers by an Anglo-Dutch fleet in 1816. • The urban warfare and terrorist campaign between the FLN and the French Army during the Algerian War. •...
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View company contact information for The Battle of Algiers on IMDbPro. ... 9 November 2009, 2:30 PM, PST); ReThinking The Battle of Algiers: A Movie the Pentagon, the Black Panthers and the Ira Can Agree On; (From Huffington Post. 11 September 2009, 8:36 AM, PDT);
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I hadn't looked at The Battle of Algiers, that classic 1965 film about urban guerrilla warfare, for at least twenty years, but once seen it tends to linger undiminished in the mind's eye. ... Perhaps Bravo or another movie channel will soon schedule The Battle of Algiers. The new anti-war movement, soldiers in Iraq,
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One of the most influential political films in history, Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers (La bataille d’Alger) vividly re-creates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, children shoot soldiers at point...
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Gillo Pontecorvo’s famous film, Battle of Algiers (1966), was recently released in Italy on DVD. Unfortunately, at the moment it is not available in the United States, which really is a pity, given the current occupation of Iraq and the possibility of further wars of occupation in the Middle East.
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A column in the Washington Post reported yesterday that the Pentagon's special operations chiefs have decided to screen The Battle of Algiers, Gillo Pontecorvo's 1965 classic film of urban terrorist insurgency, for Pentagon employees on Aug. 27. The decisi ... The Pentagon's Film FestivalA primer for The Battle of Algiers.
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A European quarter of Algiers. Coming and going of people, automobile traffic. On the sidewalk a ... He pays no heed to the fist blows, the shouts, the spits, but seems neither to see nor hear, as if he were already resigned to having lost the battle this time, and were preparing to wait patiently for a better chance.
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"The Battle of Algiers" won numerous international awards and Pontevorco was nominated for an Oscar as best director ... Click here to go to the Internet Movie Data Base website's entry for "The Battle of Algiers...
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