The Battle of Algiers DVD Details

New high-definition digital transfer

enhanced for widescreen televisions

Production gallery

Theatrical and re-release trailers

New and improved English subtitle translation

Gillo Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth (1992): A 37-minute documentary

narrated by literary critic Edward Said

Exclusive 51-minute documentary on the making of The Battle of Algiers

featuring new interviews with the director

cinematographer

composer

editor

actors

and film historians

Five Directors (17 mins.

2004): Spike Lee

Mira Nair

Julian Schnabel

Steven Soderbergh

and Oliver Stone on the film's influence

style

and importance

Remembering History (69 mins.

2004): An exclusive documentary that reconstructs the Algerian experience of the battle for independence

featuring interviews with historians and revolutionaries

including military leader Saadi Yacef

États d'Armes (2002): A 28-minute documentary excerpt featuring senior French military officers recalling the use of torture and execution to combat the rebellion

The Battle of Algiers: A Case Study (25 mins.

2004): Richard A. Clarke

former national counterterrorism coordinator and author of Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror

discusses the film's relevance with Michael A. Sheehan

former State Department coordinator for counterterrorism

in a conversation moderated by Christopher E. Isham

chief of investigative projects for ABC News

Gillo Pontecorvo's Return to Algiers (58 mins.

1992): The filmmaker revisits the Algerian people after three decades of independence

A 56-page book featuring excerpts from Saadi Yacef's original account of his arrest

a reprinted excerpt from the film's screenplay

a reprinted interview with co-writer Franco Solinas

a new essay by film scholar Peter Matthews

and biographical sketches on key figures in the French-Algerian War