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1) Enough!
Series
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When she discovers her journalist husband has been kidnapped in the midst of a civil war, a Western doctor receives help from an older Algerian woman.
Series
Criterion collection volume 249
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2004.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (121 min.) : sd., b&w and col.; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dramatizes the harrowing events of 1957, a key year in Algeria's struggle for independence from France. Recreates the tumultuous Algerian uprising against the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, the French torture prisoners for information and the Algerians resort to terrorism in their quest for independence. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range; women plant bombs in cafes. The French win the battle, but ultimately...
3) Algiers
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Charles Boyer plays Pepe le Moko, a notorious thief hiding out in the Casbah, who falls in love with a wealthy tourist, played by Heddy Lamarr.
4) Papicha
Publisher
Distrib Films US
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Algeria during the times of escalating Islamic fundamentalism and in the midst of the Algerian Civil War, a young woman dreaming of becoming a fashion designer is determined to put on a fashion show.
5) The sheik
Publisher
Alpha Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013, 1921
Physical Desc
1 DVD (55 min.) : silent, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Struck down by her beauty, Sheik Ahmed abducts Lady Diana, an English woman touring Arabia, and carries her off to his desert kingdom. Although he lavishes her with attention and luxuries, she withholds herself from his charms. Wandering off from Ahmed's guards, she is captured by the desert bandit Omair. The Sheik rounds up his warriors and races off to attack Omair's stronghold, before the brute can force himself upon his beloved Diana.
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 12
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three very different women live together in a hotel in the heart of Algiers.
Publisher
Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The tale of a 1943 WWII French Algerian Unit facing discrimination by its European counterparts due to prejudice and ignorance. The French armed forces are preparing to land troops in Europe to win back their homeland from the Axis Powers, but they cannot accomplish their task without recruiting men from their African colonies. The Africans themselves start their long journey full of hope and anticipation, but as they get closer to their goal they...
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