# The essential films about the Algerian War

Banned, shot in secret or arriving decades later: from The Battle of Algiers and Avoir 20 ans dans les Aurès to Intimate Enemies and Home Front, the films about the Algerian War picked out by the Caen film club.

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- Nov 7, 2023 · celine_episode
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## Top 14

1. **The Battle of Algiers (1966)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Gillo Pontecorvo. The FLN's urban guerrilla war and the paratroopers' crackdown. Golden Lion at Venice.
2. **Chronicle of the Years of Fire (1975)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina. The years leading up to the uprising. Palme d'Or.
3. **The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Jacques Demy. Guy leaves for Algeria and Geneviève is left alone.
4. **Avoir 20 ans dans les Aurès (1972)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — René Vautier. A commando of Breton conscripts. International Critics' Prize at Cannes.
5. **The Betrayal (2005)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Philippe Faucon. A lieutenant and his Muslim soldiers suspected of treason.
6. **Le Petit Soldat (1960)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jean-Luc Godard. A deserter caught up in torture; banned until 1963.
7. **Muriel, or the Time of Return (1963)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Alain Resnais. A young man haunted by what he saw in Algeria.
8. **Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Agnès Varda. Cléo meets a soldier on leave about to go back to Algeria.
9. **L'Honneur d'un capitaine (1982)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Pierre Schoendoerffer. The posthumous trial of an officer accused of torture.
10. **The Undeclared War (1992)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Bertrand Tavernier. Documentary: conscripts tell of their war.
11. **The Colonel (2006)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Laurent Herbiet. The investigation into a colonel's murder uncovers torture.
12. **Intimate Enemies (2007)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Florent-Emilio Siri. An idealistic lieutenant in Kabylie, with Benoît Magimel.
13. **Home Front (2020)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Lucas Belvaux. Former conscripts caught up by their past, with Gérard Depardieu.
14. **La Question (1977)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Laurent Heynemann. Torture by the army, from Henri Alleg's account.

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