René Vautier Movies

This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is a film about death. Its most shocking sequences...

Guided by a letter from an childhood friend, a young man visits places and people from the past marked by history and commitment. He then meets other...

Under this title are three reports made in the suburbs of Amiens on immigration in France: 1. Le Droit d'aimer - 10 min 2. In the series Les Cris...

A documentary road movie with René Vautier In the aftermath of Algeria's independence, René Vautier, a militant filmmaker, considered...

Long quest for a director specializing in commissioned films, who after a depression rediscovers his loved ones, his Casbah district, himself. Taken...

A filmmaker witnesses an act of racist police violence in Paris. He discusses with a friend whether and how he should make a film out of this.

An adaptation of the novel by the famous soil writer Vasily Belov, raising the problems of the harmful influence of Western civilization on the...

These are the first images shot in the ALN maquis, camera in hand, at the end of 1956 and in 1957. These war images taken in the...

At the beginning of the 1960s, in Salisbury (now Harare), in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), the government of Ian Smith hanged three black...

Film about the death of the worker Édouard Mazé, killed in Brest by the mobile guards, during the demonstrations and strikes of 1951.

Resistance fighter under the occupation, committed to the FLN during the Algerian war, member of the Medvedkine group after May 1968 and defender of...

In 1997, the committed filmmaker Jean Asselmeyer, armed with his camera, posed the following question at the General Assembly of Documentary Film in...

Report shot with workers laid off from the Hennebont ironworks in Morbihan. Speaking to other working-class communities, they tell the story of how...