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In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they...

Genre: Action

Cast: Brad Pitt

The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.

Genre: Action

Cast: James Mason

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Brahim Hadjadj

In antique Rome, a simple pepboy for chars becomes involved in a coup against Cesar. Rahatlocum is a North African Roman colony where Julius Caesar...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Coluche

When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped under the command of a sadistic sergeant deep in...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Gary Cooper

North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sean Connery

The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel. He...

Genre: War

Cast: Franchot Tone

In 1906, two American brothers join the French Foreign Legion and, led by a sadistic Sergeant-Major, they defend a fort against Berber and Tuareg...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Guy Stockwell

The first fictional feature film produced in Algeria after independence, this film addresses one of the most worrying problems: that of childhood....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hassan El-Hassani

A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of the preparation for a major attack in the North...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Attenborough

June 1942. As Rommel swept toward the Nile, the fall of Egypt and the capture of the Suez Canal seemed inevitable. Italian and German advance units...

Genre: War

Cast: Frederick Stafford

Shortly after Muzamil was born, the village's holy man predicts that he will die at age 20. Muzamil's father can't stand the curse and leaves home....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mustafa Shehata

The son of a French colonialist in Algeria returns to Algeria after learning that his father is ill. Memories from childhood return. He also must...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Prothon

Séfar (in Arabic: سيفار) is an ancient city in the heart of the Tassili n'Ajjer mountain range in Algeria, more than 2,400 km south of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hammou Agabou

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Fikret Hakan

At the turn of 1990 in Algeria, in an end-of-era atmosphere marked by the victory of the Islamists in the municipal elections, then in the...

Genre: War

Cast: Amazigh Kateb

Before immigrating to the West, Abdallah travels to the coastal city of Nouadhibou, Mauritania, to visit his mother. Although he grew up there,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Khatra Ould Abder Kader

Ikach, is a farce in two acts in popular Arabic, written by André Sarrouy and adapted and directed by himself. A critique of marriage in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rachid Ksentini

In 1970, Tahar, a young Tunisian, travels to France for the first time to help his older brother, who is wrongly accused of murder and incarcerated...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tahar Aïbi

It's May 1943, and two Italian American soldiers, Joe and Frank, are searching the North African desert for a Nazi general called Von Kassler. Von...

Genre: War

Cast: Franco Franchi

Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion was a half-hour black-and-white television series about the French Foreign Legion starring Buster Crabbe in the...

Genre: Action & Adventure

Cast: Fuzzy Knight

A one-hour series showcasing documentary films from across the Al Jazeera Network.

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

What musical genre can claim to have gone, in the space of fifty years, from a hidden cabaret in Oran to Super Bowl halftime? Born in Algeria at the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hadj Sameer

In 1939 in eastern Algeria, Omar, a young boy of ten, lives with his family in a room in Dar Sbitar, a house shared by several families who overcome...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Abderrahmane Lotaisa

Television serial based on the novel by P. C. Wren.

Genre: Action & Adventure

Cast: Benedict Taylor

Genre: Documentary

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Designed in partnership with HISTORY and using a distinctly European perspective, this series offers a fresh lens through which to study the European...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David R. Stone, PhD