The Battle of Algiers

 

Year: 1966

Time: 121 min.

 

Series: The Criterion Collection

Edition #: 249

Release Date: Tuesday, 12 October 2004

MSRP: $49.95

 

DVD

3 Discs

1.85:1

French Dolby Digital Mono 1.0

Subtitles: English

Region 1/2/3/4/5/6

 

 Gillo Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth, a documentary narrated by literary critic Edward Said   Marxist Poetry: The Making of “The Battle of Algiers,” a documentary featuring interviews with Gillo Pontecorvo, Marcello Gatti, composer Ennio Morricone, and others   Interviews with Spike Lee, Mira Nair, Julian Schnabel, Steven Soderbergh, and Oliver Stone on the film’s influence, style, and importance   Remembering History, a documentary reconstructing the Algerian experience of the battle for independence   “États d’armes,” a documentary excerpt featuring senior French military officers recalling the use of torture and execution to combat the Algerian rebellion   "The Battle of Algiers”: A Case Study, a video piece featuring U.S. counterterrorism experts   Gillo Pontecorvo’s Return to Algiers, a documentary in which the filmmaker revisits the country after three decades of independence   Production gallery   Theatrical and rerelease trailers   A booklet featuring a new essay by film scholar Peter Matthews, excerpts from Algeria’s National Liberation Front leader Saadi Yacef’s original account of his arrest, excerpts from the film’s screenplay, a reprinted interview with cowriter Franco Solinas, and biographical sketches of key figures in the French-Algerian War