Dawn of the Damned (1965)

Overview : 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.

Release Date : July 5, 1965

Runtime : 85m

Genre : Documentary, History, Drama  

Companies : Centre National du Cinéma Algérien (CNCA)

Countries : Algeria

Keywords : africa, colonialism, algeria, struggle for independence, anti-colonialism, maghreb, independance war