Max, en britisk efterretningsofficer, og Marianne, en fransk modstandskvinde, mødes for første gang under en opgave i Casablanca i 1942, hvilket fører til ægteskab. Da de efter en periode med forskellige opholdssteder genforenes i London, hører Max et rygte om, at Marianne sandsynligvis er spion for Nazityskland.
I 1954 indleder den algeriske befrielsesfront en revolution mod landets franske styre. Oprøret blusser op og der bliver krig, som udkæmpes på Algiers gader og torve. Terrorisme og tortur bliver hverdag i den blodige krig, som til sidst resulterer i Algeriets selvstændighed i 1962.
Gary Cooper, Ray Milland og Robert Preston spiller de tre brødre Beau, John og Digby Geste, der forsøger at slippe væk fra deres problematiske liv ved at slutte sig til Fremmedlegionen. Her havner de under den sadistiske Sergeant Markoffs kommando midt i Saharas glohede helvede! Brødrene må nu kæmpe for at holde sig selv i live, mens de planlægger et mytteri og forsvarer sig mod brutale fjender.
I 1951 var det temmelig kontroversielt for en velanset A-klasse skuespiller som James Mason at spille en frygtet tysk general. Og ikke mindre usædvanligt så få år efter 2. Verdenskrig, var det, at Nazi Tysklands bedste general "ørkenræven" Feltmarskal Rommel blev portrætteret så sympatisk, heltemodigt og nuanceret som i denne klassiker. Måske respekten fra Hollywood hang sammen med, at Rommel i 1944 medvirkede ved et fejlslagent attentat mod Hitler. Mason gentog iøvrigt sin rolle to år senere i The Desert Rats.
Under 2. Verdenskrig er en gruppe uregerlige britiske soldater sat i en af de allieredes fangelejre i mellemøsten. Den brutale Bert Wilson kører lejren med jernhånd, og fanger bliver sat til den ene meningsløse opgave efter den anden. Da fangernes talsmand Joe Roberts brokker sig, bliver han mål for yderligere straffearbejde. Men Joe er ikke sådan lige at knække og modstanden i lejren vokser.
Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion was a half-hour black-and-white television series about the French Foreign Legion starring Buster Crabbe in the title role. Crabbe's real-life son Cullen Crabbe played the Legion mascot, with cowboy sidekick Fuzzy Knight playing himself as Legion comedy relief. The series premiered on NBC on 13 February 1955 and ended its first run with the 65th episode shown on 7 December 1957. It was shown for many years in syndication on American television under the title Foreign Legionnaire.
A one-hour series showcasing documentary films from across the Al Jazeera Network.
In 1939 in eastern Algeria, Omar, a young boy of ten, lives with his family in a room in Dar Sbitar, a house shared by several families who overcome the trials they go through every day to ensure their subsistence. Her deceased father is Aïni, the mother, who bleeds herself from all four veins to keep her children and their grandmother alive. The families of Dar Sbitar share their intimacy and their daily life, this life animates the big house, which itself becomes a character in its own right. "El Harik" (The Fire), is an Algerian drama series in 10 episodes adapted from Mohamed Dib's trilogy "The Big House", "The Fire" and "The Loom".
Television serial based on the novel by P. C. Wren.
What musical genre can claim to have gone, in the space of fifty years, from a hidden cabaret in Oran to Super Bowl halftime? Born in Algeria at the end of the Second World War, the raï wave spread from the cabarets of western Algeria to the cassette shops of Barbès in Paris, before sweeping the world at the end of the 1980s. its hybridization, the intoxicating music traveled from Algerian and French weddings to the biggest international stages, before suddenly disappearing from the radar at the dawn of the new millennium. Icons that have disappeared, including Cheikha Remitti and Prince Hasni, to young heirs, passing by the star Khaled, the collector Hadj Sameer trace the tumultuous course of this musical genre, between clandestinity, planetary glory and resistance.
Designed in partnership with HISTORY and using a distinctly European perspective, this series offers a fresh lens through which to study the European Theater’s major battles, larger-than-life personalities, twists of fate, and tales of intrigue. You’ll uncover the strategic decisions behind Operation Barbarossa, D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, the invasion of Italy, the fall of Berlin, and more.
