Trouble in the Barbary

This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is a film about death. Its most shocking sequences derive from the captured French film archives in Algeria containing - unbelievably - masses of French-shot documentary footage of their tortures, massacres and executions of Algerians. The...

Runtime

1h 25m

Director

Ahmed Rachedi

Cast

Mouloud Mammeri, Mohamed Chouikh, René Vautier

Djamila, a young Algerian woman living with her brother Hadi and her uncle Mustafa in the Casbah district of Algiers under the French occupation of Algeria, sees the full extent of injustice, tyranny and cruelty on his compatriots by French soldiers. Jamila's nationalist spirit will be strengthened when French forces invade her univers...

Runtime

2h 3m

Director

Youssef Chahine

Cast

Magda Al Sabahi, Ahmad Mazhar, Salah Zulfikar

In Algeria in 1954, in a village in the Aurès region, poverty reigns over peasants enslaved by colonial administrators and Algerian landowners. Noua, in love with the son of a peasant dispossessed of his land, must be sold to a wealthy landowner.

Director

Abdelaziz Tolbi

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.

Runtime

1h 53m

Director

Elia Kazan

Cast

Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn

Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties. César, however, is wounded and captured during a bank hold up. Fernando then decides to kidnap the American ambassador in Brazil and ask for the release of fifteen political prisoners in exchange...

Runtime

1h 50m

Director

Bruno Barreto

Cast

Alan Arkin, Fernanda Torres, Pedro Cardoso