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  • War 2 War Algeria: France's War It Refused to Name (Season 1, Episode 54)
  • TV Episode | 27 min | Documentary, History, War
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Algeria: France's War It Refused to Name (Season 1, Episode 54)
TV Episode | 27 min | Documentary, History, War
We track how the doctrine "Algeria is France" - departments, settler power, and forced assimilation - breeds dispossession, mass violence, and a new Algerian nationalism: from conquest and the Sétif massacres to the FLN's launch in 1954 ...See moreWe track how the doctrine "Algeria is France" - departments, settler power, and forced assimilation - breeds dispossession, mass violence, and a new Algerian nationalism: from conquest and the Sétif massacres to the FLN's launch in 1954 and Philippeville in 1955. As Paris doubles its forces and passes Special Powers, Suez intertwines with the war, bombings in Algiers begin, and Lacoste hands police powers to General Massu, opening the Battle of Algiers and a system of torture. See less
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Writers
Sebastian Brandstetter (writer) | Spartacus Olsson (writer)
Producers
Astrid Deinhard-Olsson (producer) | Spartacus Olsson (producer)
Editor
Karolina Dolega
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Status
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Updated Nov 23, 2025
Release date
Nov 23, 2025 (Germany)

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6 cast members
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Sebastian Brandstetter primary photo
Sebastian Brandstetter
Self - Host Self - Host   See fewer
War 2 War (2025)
Messali Hadj primary photo
Messali Hadj
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
Pariser Journal (1961)
Guy Mollet primary photo
Guy Mollet
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
Le revolver et la rose (1970)
Abdelkader ibn Muhieddine primary photo
Abdelkader ibn Muhieddine
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Spartacus Olsson primary photo
Spartacus Olsson
Self - Host Self - Host   See fewer
Chock (1997)
Yacef Saadi primary photo
Yacef Saadi
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
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