Movies: North africa
- 2016
Allied (2016)
Allied6.82016HD
In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war....
- 1966
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
The Battle of Algiers7.81966HD
Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in 19...
- 1943
Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
Five Graves to Cairo6.91943HD
The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel. He assumes the identity of a recently deceased waiter and is helped by the hotel's owner, despite protes...
- 1958
Sea of Sand (1958)
Sea of Sand6.41958HD
A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of the preparation for a major attack in the North African campaign. Sea of Sand was distributed in the US in a shortened version, Desert Patrol....
- 1965
The Hill (1965)
The Hill7.51965HD
North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And...
- 1982
Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ (1982)
Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ6.11982HD
In antique Rome, a simple pepboy for chars becomes involved in a coup against Cesar. Rahatlocum is a North African Roman colony where Julius Caesar came to spend an expensive holiday. The revolt rumbles among the small people who find a leader in th...
- 1951
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel6.71951HD
The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler....
- 1939
Beau Geste (1939)
Beau Geste6.91939HD
When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped under the command of a sadistic sergeant deep in the scorching Sahara. Now the brothers must fight for their lives as they plot mutiny against tyranny...
- 1965
War Italian Style (1965)
War Italian Style4.81965HD
It's May 1943, and two Italian American soldiers, Joe and Frank, are searching the North African desert for a Nazi general called Von Kassler. Von Kassler's aide captures them, and arranges for them to escape with fake war plans. But, things don't go...
- 1989
Rose Of The Desert (1989)
Rose Of The Desert101989HD
An oasis lost in the Saharan desert more than 700km from Algiers. A society still functioning on centuries-old rituals. The only connection to the city is a bus that passes once a day. Moussa, disabled from birth, lives there with his sister Zineb; T...
- 2021
Séfar, A City of Mysteries (2021)
Séfar, A City of Mysteries102021HD
Séfar (in Arabic: سيفار) is an ancient city in the heart of the Tassili n'Ajjer mountain range in Algeria, more than 2,400 km south of Algiers and very close to the Libyan border. Séfar is the largest troglodyte city in the world, with several thousa...
- 1943
The Desert Song (1943)
The Desert Song5.91943HD
Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad....
- 1973
The Heroes (1973)
The Heroes4.51973HD
Four soldiers and a beautiful Greek nurse, thrown together in North Africa during World War II, team up to pull off a heist of two-million pounds in boxes marked "plasma."...
- 2020
You Will Die at Twenty (2020)
You Will Die at Twenty72020HD
Shortly after Muzamil was born, the village's holy man predicts that he will die at age 20. Muzamil's father can't stand the curse and leaves home. Sakina raises her son as a single mother, overly protective. One day, Muzamil turns 19....
- 1969
The Battle of El Alamein (1969)
The Battle of El Alamein5.41969HD
June 1942. As Rommel swept toward the Nile, the fall of Egypt and the capture of the Suez Canal seemed inevitable. Italian and German advance units raced toward Alexandria. Mussolini had given explicit orders: The Italians must arrive first!...
- 2004
History of Pottery and Ceramics in Algeria (2004)
History of Pottery and Ceramics in Algeria102004HD
In Algeria, pottery is different from one region to another, the result of the various influences it has undergone throughout history. If the manufacturing steps are substantially the same, the result is far from identical. In Kabylia, for example, t...
- 1978
The Nouba of the Women of Mount Chenoua (1978)
The Nouba of the Women of Mount Chenoua61978HD
Writer and filmmaker Assia Djebar explores Algerian history, the psychological impact of war, and post-colonial female identity in this 1979 classic of film literature. Named for (and taking its structure from) a traditional song with five distinct m...
- 2002
Waiting for Happiness (2002)
Waiting for Happiness6.32002HD
Before immigrating to the West, Abdallah travels to the coastal city of Nouadhibou, Mauritania, to visit his mother. Although he grew up there, Abdallah feels anything but at home in his old neighborhood: He can no longer speak the local dialect, and...
- 1958
Algerian Refugees (1958)
Algerian Refugees101958HD
Directed by Pierre Clément and Djamel-Eddine Chanderli, produced by the FLN Information Service in 1958, this film is a rare document. Pierre Clément is considered one of the founders of Algerian cinema. In this film he shows images of Algerian refug...
- 1945
Alger Et Ses Environs (1945)
Alger Et Ses Environs101945HD
The film, shot in 1938, is part of a series entitled “The true face of Algeria”. The film highlights the proximity of Algiers to Paris and promotes air travel. The commentary supporting the images highlights the urban dynamism (“Every day, a new skys...