French Colonialism Movies

  • 1958
    Jamila, the Algerian

    Jamila, the Algerian

    Jamila, the Algerian

    7.21958HD

    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...

    Jamila, the Algerian
  • 2021
    Manca Moro

    Manca Moro

    Manca Moro

    102021HD

    Born to an Algerian father and a Sicilian mother in Tunisia, I have always been wealthy of three cultures. This motherland is where were born my...

    Manca Moro
  • 1985
    The Epic of Cheikh Bouamama

    The Epic of Cheikh Bouamama

    The Epic of Cheikh Bouamama

    91985HD

    The story of the film revolves around the epic of Sheikh Bouamama, a leader of the national resistance in Algeria during the French colonial era. The...

    The Epic of Cheikh Bouamama
  • 1970
    Ramparts of Clay

    Ramparts of Clay

    Ramparts of Clay

    7.11970HD

    In a village on the edge of the Sahara, Rima, a 19-year-old orphan, dreams of learning, of discovering, of living free while the men of the salt mine...

    Ramparts of Clay
  • 1992
    October 17, 1961: A day that went missing

    October 17, 1961: A day that went missing

    October 17, 1961: A day that went missing

    101992HD

    This documentary bears witness to the events that took place more than thirty years before the filming of this movie, on October 17, 1961, in Paris,...

    October 17, 1961: A day that went missing
  • 1994
    Madagascar: The Red Island Uprising

    Madagascar: The Red Island Uprising

    Madagascar: The Red Island Uprising

    01994HD

    On March 29, 1947, peasants armed with sticks and knives attacked the French garrisons in Madagascar. The revolt would end twenty months later with...

    Madagascar: The Red Island Uprising
  • 1965
    La Tragédie du Roi Christophe

    La Tragédie du Roi Christophe

    La Tragédie du Roi Christophe

    101965HD

    La Tragédie du Roi Christophe
  • 2001
    October 17, 1961, Cover-up Of a Massacre

    October 17, 1961, Cover-up Of a Massacre

    October 17, 1961, Cover-up Of a Massacre

    102001HD

    On October 17 and 18, 1961, during a non-violent demonstration against the imposed curfew, dozens of Algerians were murdered in Paris by police...

    October 17, 1961, Cover-up Of a Massacre
  • 2009
    Gerboise Bleue

    Gerboise Bleue

    Gerboise Bleue

    102009HD

    "Gerboise bleue", the first French atomic test carried out on February 13, 1960 in the Algerian Sahara, is the starting point of France's nuclear...

    Gerboise Bleue
  • 2007
    Li Fet Met (Le passé est mort)

    Li Fet Met (Le passé est mort)

    Li Fet Met (Le passé est mort)

    102007HD

    The SAS (Section Administrative Spécialisée) were created in 1956 by the French army during the Algerian war to pacify "the natives"....

    Li Fet Met (Le passé est mort)
  • 1993
    Yaouled

    Yaouled

    Yaouled

    8.51993HD

    A young Arab boy, a teenager "Yaouled", who lives on the streets and scrapes by doing odd jobs: shoe shining, street vending, etc. The film tells the...

    Yaouled
  • 1949
    Paysans Noirs

    Paysans Noirs

    Paysans Noirs

    101949HD

    In Ivory Coast, an administrator is appointed to replace a colleague who has just been assassinated. The newly appointed administrator, Guillon,...

    Paysans Noirs
  • 1971
    Patrol in the East

    Patrol in the East

    Patrol in the East

    81971HD

    The film traces the story of a patrol of the Algerian National Liberation Army (ALN), whose mission is to transport a prisoner French soldier to the...

    Patrol in the East
  • 1963
    Le Serment

    Le Serment

    Le Serment

    101963HD

    The Oath, a TV film produced by Algerian television in 1963 following the end of the war of independence, tells the story of young Algerians who...

    Le Serment
  • 2014
    Krim Belkacem

    Krim Belkacem

    Krim Belkacem

    102014HD

    This film retraces the combat journey of Krim Belkacem, one of the leading figures of the Algerian War. When he left the Dellys barracks in October...

    Krim Belkacem
  • 2019
    Color-Blind

    Color-Blind

    Color-Blind

    42019HD

    A synaesthetic portrait made between French Polynesia and Brittany, Color-blind follows the restless ghost of Gauguin in excavating the colonial...

    Color-Blind
  • 1967
    The Winds of the Aures

    The Winds of the Aures

    The Winds of the Aures

    6.81967HD

    The transformations of the daily life of the Algerian people during the destructive French occupation, then during the war of liberation. While...

    The Winds of the Aures
  • 2016
    FLN, A Sacrifice for History

    FLN, A Sacrifice for History

    FLN, A Sacrifice for History

    102016HD

    In 1958, in the midst of the Algerian War and two months before the World Cup, the French Football Federation (FFF) discovered on April 15th that...

    FLN, A Sacrifice for History
  • 1975
    Les Enfants de Novembre

    Les Enfants de Novembre

    Les Enfants de Novembre

    101975HD

    In the streets of the Casbah of Algiers, an FLN fighter pursued by the colonial police hands over confidential documents to Mourad, an Algerian child...

    Les Enfants de Novembre
  • 2006
    Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man

    Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man

    Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man

    8.42006HD

    Thomas Sankara, former president of Burkina Faso, was known as "the African Che", and became famous in Africa due to his innovative ideas, his...

    Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man