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 real death of children, passers-by, resistance fighters, one after the other, becomes unbearable. Rather than be blatant propaganda, the film convinces entirely by its visual evidence, constituting an object lesson for revolutionary cinema.

• Centre National du Cinéma Algérien (CNCA)
• Mouloud Mammeri
• Mohamed Chouikh
• René Vautier
• Ahmed Rachedi
• Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane
• Sid Ahmed Agoumi
• Salah Teskouk
• Samia Meziane