List of films about the Algerian War

Below is an incomplete list of feature films, television films or TV series which include events of the Algerian War. This list does not include documentaries, short films.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

1950s

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Subject
1958	Egypt	Jamila, the Algerian	جميلة	Youssef Chahine	Biography, Drama, History, War. Djamila Bouhired

1960s

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Subject
1962	France	The Fight on the Island	Le Combat dans l'île	Alain Cavalier	Drama, Thriller. Organisation armée secrète
1962	France	The Olive Trees of Justice	Les Oliviers de la justice	James Blue	Drama.
1962	Belgium Spain Italy West Germany	Commando	Marcia o Crepa	Frank Wisbar	Action, War. French Foreign Legion
1963	France Italy	Muriel	Muriel ou le Temps d'un retour	Alain Resnais	Drama.
1963	France	The Good Life	La Belle Vie	Robert Enrico	Drama, War.
1963	France	The Little Soldier	Le petit soldat	Jean-Luc Godard	Drama, War.
1964	France Italy	The Unvanquished	L'Insoumis	Alain Cavalier	Drama, Thriller. Organisation armée secrète
1965	Algeria	So Young a Peace	Une si jeune paix	Jacques Charby
1966	France Italy	Target 500 million	Objectif 500 millions	Pierre Schoendoerffer	Crime, Drama, Thriller. Organisation armée secrète
1966	United States	Lost Command	Les Centurions	Mark Robson	Action, Drama, War. Based on a novel The Centurions.
1966	Italy Algeria	The Battle of Algiers	معركة الجزائر La battaglia di Algeri	Gillo Pontecorvo	Drama, War.
1967	France Spain	The Hotheads	Les Têtes brûlées	Willy Rozier	Adventure. Based on a novel Les Têtes brûlées.
1967	Algeria	The Winds of the Aures	ريح الاوراس Le Vent des Aurès	Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina	Drama, War.
1968	Algeria	Hassan, Terrorist	Hassan Terro	Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina	Comedy, Drama.
1969	Algeria	Outlaws	الخارجون عن القانون Les Hors-la-loi	Tewfik Fares	Drama.

1970s

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Subject
1971	Algeria	Black Sweat	لعرق الأسود Sueur noire	Sid Ali Mazif
1971	Algeria	Patrol to the East	دورية نحو الشرق Patrouille à l'Est	Amar Laskri	Action, Drama, History, War.
1971	Algeria	The Opium and the Stick	الأفيون والعصا L'Opium et le Bâton	Ahmed Rachedi	Action, Drama, War.
1972	France	The uprooted	Les déracinés	André Teisseire	War. Algiers putsch of 1961
1972	France	To Be Twenty in the Aures	Avoir 20 ans dans les Aurès	René Vautier	Drama, War.
1972	Algeria	Forbidden Zone	منطقة محرمة Zone interdite	Ahmed Lallem
1973	France Spain Italy	The Conspiracy	Le Complot	René Gainville	Action, Drama, History, Thriller. Algiers putsch of 1961
1973	France Italy Tunisia	Nothing to Report	R.A.S.	Yves Boisset	Drama, War. Based on an unknown story.
1973	Algeria France	December	ديسمبر Décembre	Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina	Drama.
1973	United Kingdom France	The Day of the Jackal		Fred Zinnemann	Crime, Drama, Thriller. Organisation armée secrète
1974	France	The Madwoman of Toujane	La Folle de Toujane	René Vautier Nicole Le Garrec	Drama.
1974	Algeria	The Escape of Hassan Terro	هروب حسان الطيرو L'évasion de Hassan Terro	Mustapha Badie	Comedy.
1975	Algeria	The South Wind	ريح الجنوب Le Vent du Sud	Mohamed Slimane Riad	Drama. Based on a novel The South Wind.
1975	Algeria	The Legacy	الارث L'héritage	Mohamed Bouamari
1975	Algeria	Chronicle of the Years of Fire	وقائع سنين الجمر Chronique des Années de Braise	Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina	Drama, History.
1975	Algeria	November boys	أولاد نوفمبر Les Enfants de Novembre	Moussa Haddad	Drama.
1976	France	In Hell	Gloria Mundi	Nikos Papatakis	Drama.
1977	France	The Question	La Question	Laurent Heynemann	Drama, War. Based on the book La Question.
1977	France	Drummer-Crab	Le Crabe-tambour	Pierre Schoendoerffer	Adventure, Drama, War. Based on a novel Le Crabe-Tambour. Pierre Guillaume

1980s

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Subject
1980	France	Some news	Certaines nouvelles	Jacques Davila	Comedy, Drama.
1982	France	A Captain's Honor	L'Honneur d'un capitaine	Pierre Schoendoerffer	Drama, War.
1983	France	Liberty at Night	Liberté, la nuit	Philippe Garrel	Drama, War.
1983	France	The Sacrificed	Les Sacrifiés	Okacha Touita
1986	Algeria France	The Crazy Years of the Twist	Les Folles Années du twist	Mahmoud Zemmouri	Comedy, Drama.
1987	Algeria	The Doors of Silence	أبواب الصمت Les Portes du silence	Amar Laskri	War.
1989	France Canada Belgium	Dear brother	Cher frangin	Gérard Mordillat

1990s

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Subject
1991	France	The Wind of All Saints' Day	Le Vent de la Toussaint	Gilles Béhat	Drama. Based on a novel Le Vent de la Toussaint : Un médecin dans le djebel.
1993	France Algeria	The Honor of the Tribe	L'Honneur de la tribu	Mahmoud Zemmouri	Comedy, Drama, War. Based on a novel L'Honneur de la tribu.
1994	France	Wild Reeds	Les Roseaux sauvages	André Téchiné	Drama.
1994	France	Poorly Extinguished Fires	Des feux mal éteints	Serge Moati	Drama, War. Based on a novel Des feux mal éteints.
1997	France	Under Women's Feet	Sous les pieds des femmes	Rachida Krim
1998	Algeria Vietnam	Lotus flower	Fleur de lotus Bông sen	Amar Laskri Trần Đắc
1999	France	The Cry of Men	Le Cri des hommes	Okacha Touita	Drama.

2000s

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Subject
2002	United Kingdom	Legion of Honor		Martin Huberty	Drama, War. French Foreign Legion
2005	France	Before oblivion	Avant l'oubli	Augustin Burger	Drama.
2005	France Belgium	The Betrayal	La Trahison	Philippe Faucon	Drama, War.
2005	France Austria Germany Italy	Hidden	Caché	Michael Haneke	Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Paris massacre of 1961
2006	France Belgium	The Colonel	Mon colonel	Laurent Herbiet	Crime, Drama, History, War. Based on a novel Mon colonel.
2007	France		Nocturnes	Henry Colomer	Drama, War.
2007	France Algeria	Summer of '62	Cartouches gauloises	Mehdi Charef	Drama.
2007	France Morocco	Intimate Enemies	L'Ennemi intime	Florent-Emilio Siri	Drama, History, War.
2008	Algeria	Mostefa Ben Boulaïd	مصطفى بن بولعيد	Ahmed Rachedi	Action, Biography, Drama, History, War. Mostefa Ben Boulaïd

2010s

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Subject
2010	France Algeria Belgium Tunisia Italy	Outside the Law	خارجون عن القانون Hors-la-loi	Rachid Bouchareb	Crime, Drama, War. Sétif and Guelma massacre, Paris massacre of 1961
2012	Algeria	Zabana!	زبانة	Saïd Ould Khelifa	Drama, History, War. Ahmed Zabana
2012	France	What the Day Owes the Night	Ce que le jour doit à la nuit	Alexandre Arcady	Drama, Romance.
2014	Algeria	Twilight of Shadows	غروب الظلال Crépuscule des ombres	Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina	Drama.
2014	France	Far from Men	Loin des hommes	David Oelhoffen	Drama, War. Based on short story The Guest.
2014	Algeria	Krim Belkacem	كريم بلقاسم	Ahmed Rachedi	Action, Biography, Drama, History, War. Krim Belkacem
2015	Algeria	Lotfi	لطفي	Ahmed Rachedi	Action, Biography, Drama, History, War. Benali Boudghène
2015	Algeria	The Well	Le puits	Lotfi Bouchouchi	Drama.

2020s

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Subject
2020	France Belgium	Home Front	Des hommes	Lucas Belvaux	Drama, History, War. Based on a novel Des hommes.
2020	France	The Breitner Commando	Qu'un sang impur...	Abdel Raouf Dafri	Drama, War.
2020	France Belgium Algeria	Faithful	De nos frères blessés	Hélier Cisterne	Biography, Drama, History. Based on a novel De nos frères blessés.
2022	France Belgium		Les Harkis	Philippe Faucon	Drama, History, War. Harki
2023	France	The Little Blond of the Casbah	Le Petit Blond de la Casbah	Alexandre Arcady	Biography. Based on a novel Le Petit Blond de la Casbah.

Science fiction, fantasy, and horror films

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
2010	France Morocco	Stranded	Djinns	Hugues Martin Sandra Martin	Horror, Mystery.

Television films

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Subject
1981	France	The Blue Weapon	L'Arme au bleu	Maurice Frydland	Based on a novel L'Arme au bleu.
1992	France Algeria	It was war	C'était la guerre	Maurice Failevic Ahmed Rachedi	War.
2005	France	Dark night October 17, 1961	Nuit noire 17 octobre 1961	Alain Tasma	Drama, History. Based on the book La Bataille de Paris. Paris massacre of 1961
2006	France		Harkis	Alain Tasma	Drama. Harki
2012	France	The Bay of Algiers	La Baie d'Alger	Merzak Allouache	Drama. Based on an autobiography.
2012	France	For Djamila	Pour Djamila	Caroline Huppert	Drama, History. Djamila Boupacha

TV Series

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Subject
1960	East Germany	The escape from hell	Die Flucht aus der Hölle	Hans-Erich Korbschmitt	Crime, Thriller. French Foreign Legion
1965	Algeria	The night is afraid of the sun	الليل يخاف من الشمس La nuit a peur du soleil	Mustapha Badie
2003	France	The farewell	L'Adieu	François Luciani	Drama, History, Romance, War. Pied-Noir
2024	United States	Monsieur Spade		Scott Frank	Crime, Drama, Thriller.

References

^ Stora, Benjamin (2008). "La guerre d'Algérie dans les médias : l'exemple du cinéma" [The Algerian war in the media: the example of cinema]. Hermès, la Revue (in French). 52 (3): 33–40. doi:10.4267/2042/28671.
^ Stora, Benjamin (2008). "La guerre d'Algérie : la mémoire par le cinéma" [The Algerian War: memory through cinema]. Les guerres de mémoires. Cahiers libres (in French): 262–272. doi:10.3917/dec.blanc.2008.01.0262. ISBN 978-2-7071-5463-7.
^ LEDOUX, Sébastien. "Représenter la Guerre d'Algérie en France : cinéma, télévision et littérature". EHNE.
^ Denis, Sébastien. "La guerre d'Algérie dans le cinéma français". Ministère des Armées.
^ Lacuve, Jean-Luc (27 March 2022). "La guerre d'Algérie". Ciné-club de Caen.

[1] Stora, Benjamin (2008). "La guerre d'Algérie dans les médias : l'exemple du cinéma" [The Algerian war in the media: the example of cinema]. Hermès, la Revue (in French). 52 (3): 33–40. doi:10.4267/2042/28671.

[2] Stora, Benjamin (2008). "La guerre d'Algérie : la mémoire par le cinéma" [The Algerian War: memory through cinema]. Les guerres de mémoires. Cahiers libres (in French): 262–272. doi:10.3917/dec.blanc.2008.01.0262. ISBN 978-2-7071-5463-7.

[3] LEDOUX, Sébastien. "Représenter la Guerre d'Algérie en France : cinéma, télévision et littérature". EHNE.

[4] Denis, Sébastien. "La guerre d'Algérie dans le cinéma français". Ministère des Armées.

[5] Lacuve, Jean-Luc (27 March 2022). "La guerre d'Algérie". Ciné-club de Caen.

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