Benjamin Stora

Algeria 1943: A Colony Under Vichy Control (2022)

World War II, June 1940. France has fallen and suffers the relentless boot of Nazi Germany. But Algeria, the prized French colony in North Africa, remains part of the territory controlled by the Vichy regime of Marshal Pétain. A strict colonial order is m ...

Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté (2021)

Frantz Fanon alone embodies all the issues of French colonial history. Martinican resistance fighter, he enlisted, like millions of colonial soldiers, in the Free Army out of loyalty to France and the idea of freedom that it embodies for him. A writer, he ...

Savages: The Story of Human Zoos (2018)

For more than a century the great colonial powers put human beings, taken by force from their native lands, on show as entertainment, just like animals in zoos; a shameful, outrageous and savage treatment of people who were considered subhuman. ...

Fernand Pouillon, Une architecture habitée (2017)

In this documentary, Marie-Claire Rubinstein reveals to us, through the testimonies of the inhabitants who live there, the architectural achievements of the French urban planner Fernand Pouillon in Algiers. In particular the vast complexes of hundreds of s ...

Emilie Busquant, an Algerian passion (2015)

Emilie Busquant, a woman with an exceptional destiny, was born on March 3, 1901, in Neuves-Maisons, Lorraine. In 1923, she moved to Paris to find work and met Messali Hadj, who had also come seeking employment. A beautiful love story began; she fell in lov ...

Il était une fois... « Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob » (2009)

Le Choix de mon père (2008)

L'Extrême Droite dans l'Histoire : Du général Boulanger à Jean-Marie Le Pen (2002)

François Mitterrand et la guerre d'Algérie (2010)