Essays on Battle of Algiers

War movies are often dramatized, either in a positive political. Some glorify it while others emphasize a portrayal the hardships caused, and lives lost. Others cast a positive light on one side while dehumanizing or criticizing the other. Ivan’s Childhood and the battle of Algiers…

This film, which was directed by Pontercorvo, is exceptional not only in content but in camera work. The viewer can not but help being drawn into a world which seems so realistic as to include black and white footage, newsreel like scenes, not to mention…

In the film, Battagli di Algiers or Battle of Algiers (1966), the two main ideological approaches which emerge are Colonialism and Feminist Studies and this film conforms to the Third Cinema movement prevalent in the 1960s. The Battle of Algiers covers crucial years in Algerian…