https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca3M2feqJk8&ab_channel=DavidMcDougall

Considered one of the most influential political films in history, Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1966 tour de force is a gritty docudrama about the Algerian National Liberation Front’s (FLN) battle for independence against their French colonizers in the 1950s and early ’60s. A case study in modern warfare that minutely details the tactics of both sides, The Battle of Algiers became a veritable handbook for both insurgency and counterinsurgency and was studied by everyone from the Black Panthers, the PLO, the IRA, South African militants, and the Viet Cong to the George W. Bush administration in Iraq.