6 Films & TV Shows Set In Algeria During The 1960s
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Home Front
🇫🇷 France 🇩🇿 Algeria The 1960sBurgundy, France. Solange's 60th birthday celebrations are violently interrupted by her estranged brother, Bernard. His outburst will reawaken painful memories and reveal untold stories of the Algerian War.
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Outside the Law
🇫🇷 France 🇩🇿 Algeria The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sThree brothers. One destiny. Freedom at all costs. — After losing their family home in Algeria in the 1920s, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement in France and Saïd moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs and boxing halls of Pigalle.
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Stranded
🇩🇿 Algeria Africa - General The 1960s The 1950sThey are soldiers. They are survivors. They are not alone. — Algeria, 1960. A section of French paratroopers are sent in search of a missing aircraft in the Algerian desert. The wreckage of the plane is quickly located, but there are no survivors, just a suitcase stamped “Top Secret”. Stormed by enemy soldiers, the troops find refuge in a strange abandoned citadel. Despite warnings from the place’s Guardian to leave at once, they wake up the Djinns, the evil spirits of the desert .
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Mesrine: Killer Instinct
🇫🇷 France 🇨🇦 Canada Arizona 🇩🇿 Algeria The 1970s The 1960sJacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy money it presents. Mentored by Guido, Mesrine turns his back on middle class law-abiding and soon moves swiftly up the criminal ladder.
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The Sun Assassinated
🇩🇿 Algeria The 1960s The 1970sThe poet Jean Sénac is also a radio presenter. A Pied-noir, he opted to stay in Algeria after the country achieved independence in 1962. Ten years later he is monitored by the police of the present regime. His poems have a large public following and his radio show is a great success, especially with the young. The poet allies himself with two students, aspiring playwrights Hamid and Belkacem, to fight for the freedom and culture of Algerian youth.
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The Battle of Algiers
🇩🇿 Algeria The 1960s The 1950sThe Revolt that Stirred the World! — Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in 1957. The film traces the rebels' struggle and the increasingly extreme measures taken by the French government to quell the revolt.
