It Was the War of Algeria

Documentary War & Politics

Ahmed Ben Bella

(Self - First President of Algeria (archive footage))

Ferhat Abbas

(Self - President of the Algerian Republic (archive footage))

Bachir Hadj Ali

(Self - ALN Officer)

Slimane Zeghidour

(Self - Journalist)

Kateb Yacine

Louis Gardel

(Self - Novelist)

Germaine Tillion

(Self - Ethnologist (voice) (archive footage))

Yacef Saâdi

(Self - FLN Member)

Zohra Drif-Bitat

(Self - Moudjahidine)

Henri Alleg

(Self - Journalist (archive footage))

Ali Haroun

Paul Teitgen

(Self (archive footage))

Saïd Mohammedi

(Self - ALN chief officer (archive footage))

Yamina Benguigui

(Self - Daughter of an Algerian Nationalist)

Nicole Garcia

(Self - French from Algeria)

John F. Kennedy

(Self (archive footage))

Franklin D. Roosevelt

(Self (voice) (archive footage))

Charles de Gaulle

(Self (archive footage))

Pierre Mendès France

(Self (archive footage))

Guy Mollet

(Self - Council President (archive footage))

Benoît Magimel

Abdelkader Hamoumou

(Self - President of a Harkis Association and Former Moghazni)

Djaouher Akrour

(Self - FLN member)

Kahina Bahloul

(Self - Islamologist and Imam)

Sanhadja Akrouf

(Self - Daughter of an Algerian Nationalist, writer)

Danièle Michel-Chich

(Self - French from Algeria)

Marie Elbe

(Self - Journalist)

Cédric Villani

Maurice Viollette

(Self - French Politician (voice) (archive footage))

Henri Paul Eydoux

(Self - Member of Jacques Soustelle's Cabinet)

Jean-Marc Deleplanque

(Self - Sub-Prefect at Balma, Algeria)

Maurice Mouchan

(Self - Mayor of El-Biar (archive footage))

Roger Saboureau

(Self - Parachute Lieutenant in Algeria)

Christian Pineau

(Self - Minister of Foreign Affairs (archive footage))

Jacques Massu

(Self - General (archive footage))