Documentaire monté à partir de témoignages sur la torture de personnes ayant vécu la guerre. Certains témoins ont été torturées par Jean-Marie Le Pen. Ces témoignages vont aider à défendre en justice le journal Le Canard Enchaîné en procès contre Jean-Marie Le Pen pour diffamation. Le film est projeté en 1985 lors du procès et certains témoins sont également venus soutenir le journal. Mais la loi d’amnistie de 1963 protège l’homme politique, interdisant l’utilisation d’images pouvant nuire à des personnes ayant servi pendant la guerre d’Algérie.

Les Trois Cousins est une comédie-dramatique de René Vautier sortie en 1970 sur les conditions de vie de trois cousins immigrés algériens à la recherche d'un travail à Paris. Logés dans un étroit cabanon de chantier, le poêle à charbon provoquera leur asphyxie. Les Trois Cousins remporta l'Award du meilleur film pour les Droits de l'Homme à Strasbourg en 1970.

At the beginning of the 1960s, in Salisbury (now Harare), in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), the government of Ian Smith hanged three black revolutionaries who had nevertheless been pardoned by the Queen of England. René Vautier, with ZAPU (Zimbabwe African Party for Unity), denounces this killing. Expelled by the Rhodesian police (informed by the French secret services), the filmmaker shoots a film in Algeria in the form of an indictment against colonial savagery. The film was first banned in France, then authorized in 1965.

1961 short film

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.

1950 film by René Vautier

A group of refractory and pacifist Bretons is sent to Algeria. These beings confronted with the horrors of war gradually become killing machines. One of them did not accept it and deserted, taking with him an FLN prisoner who was to be executed the next day.