The Battle of Algiers

The Battle of Algiers is a 1966 Italian film about the Algerian war for independence from France between 1954 and 1962.

I had heard about this movie a few different times but had never seen it. I saw it was on Turner Classic Movies a few days ago and recorded it.

Despite being more than 40 years old, in the context of present day events in Iraq, Palestine, Chechnya and other places this black-and-white, subtitled film delivers a powerful but fairly balanced story about Muslim-Western conflict.

I don't know if history repeats itself or simply that nothing ever really changes. The conflicts of the mid-twentieth century are hardly distinguishable from those of the early twenty-first century.

I would highly recommend this movie as lending to a better understanding of today's world.