looking for similar films.
thanks.
Lots of interesting suggestions here. I'll bump the thread in the hope that people will add more.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1HPdt-_aRk
Dark Of The Sun, The Dogs of War, and The Wild Geese, all war films about mercenaries in former African colonies.
shareBlack and White in Color. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074972/
Surprised that no one's mentioned Outside the Law, a recent and very good Algerian-French co-production about FLN operatives in France. There's also a French take on the war, Intimate Enemies, which is okay but tends towards cliche.
There's an Italian movie called Black Jesus from the '60s, with Woody Strode as a Patrice Lumumba stand-in victimized by the Belgian military. It's full of long-winded speeches and clunky Christ allegories, but it has the same anger as Algiers and like-minded films.
I'm afraid that you underestimate the number of subjects in which I take an interest!
Maybe I watch longer-winded films but Black Jesus was packed with long, long speech-free scenes. They only increased the impact of the sounds (screaming, begging etc.)
Brother, you can believe in stones, as long as you don't throw them at me.
Definitely see this one:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063576/reviews
Based very loosely on Lumumba's story, the film gutted me. Its compassion for humanity, even for those who do bad things, is simply beautiful.
Brother, you can believe in stones, as long as you don't throw them at me.
Zulu with Michael Caine is a classic.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058777/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_120
Burn! [Queimada] actually about Portuguese colonists in the Antilles but it's also by Pontecorvo. I saw it in film class. Would make a good double feature with The Battle of Algiers.
I shall call him Squishy and he shall be mine and he shall be my Squishy.
Try 'Zulu' and 'Zulu Dawn', about the Anglo-Zulu War (fought between the UK/Commonwealth and the indigenous Kingdom of Zululand in what is today the Republic of South Africa). The former deals with the Battle of Rorke's Drift; the latter with the Battle of Islandlwana).
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