Algiers, the Mecca of Revolutionaries (1962-1974)
Directed by Ben Salama
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From the early 1960s to the mid-1970s, independent Algeria provided significant support to anti-colonial movements and revolutionaries worldwide. Successive presidents, Ahmed Ben Bella and then Houari Boumédiène, made Algiers a haven for activists fighting against colonial and racial oppression. Algiers the White became Algiers the Red. The internationalist Che Guevara established his base of operations there for his guerrilla activities in Africa. The African-American leader Eldridge Cleaver made it the international headquarters of the Black Panther Party. During this period, Algiers was known as "The Mecca of Revolutionaries."Read moreLess
From the early 1960s to the mid-1970s, independent Algeria provided significant support to anti-colonial movements and revolutionaries worldwide. Successive presidents, Ahmed Ben Bella and then Houari Boumédiène, made Algiers a haven for activists fighting against colonial and racial oppression. Algiers the White became Algiers the Red. The internationalist Che Guevara established his base of operations there for his guerrilla activities in Africa. The African-American leader Eldridge Cleaver made it the international headquarters of the Black Panther Party. During this period, Algiers was known as "The Mecca of Revolutionaries."
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From the early 1960s to the mid-1970s, independent Algeria provided significant support to anti-colonial movements and revolutionaries worldwide. Successive presidents, Ahmed Ben Bella and then Houari Boumédiène, made Algiers a haven for activists fighting against colonial and racial oppression. Algiers the White became Algiers the Red. The internationalist Che Guevara established his base of operations there for his guerrilla activities in Africa. The African-American leader Eldridge Cleaver made it the international headquarters of the Black Panther Party. During this period, Algiers was known as "The Mecca of Revolutionaries."
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Ahmed Ben BellaSelf
Che GuevaraSelf
Nelson MandelaSelf
Houari Boumédiène
Eldridge CleaverSelf
Patrice LumumbaSelf
Kathleen CleaverSelf
Miriam MakebaSelf
Fidel CastroSelf
Yasser ArafatSelf
Johnny MakatiniSelf
M'Hamed YazidSelfExplore the crew
- Director
- Ben Salama
- Editor
- Thomas Marie
- Writer
- Ben Salama
- Writer
- Amirouche Laïdi
- Producer
- Yannis Chebbi
- Producer
- Amirouche Laïdi
- Producer
- Michaël Kazan