This war film has been named the "best ever made", and it is available on two streaming platforms. The Battle of Algiers is an Italian-Algerian war film co-written and directed by Gillo Pontecorvo.

The US doesn't have a monopoly on war films, and some of the best war movies ever made were released outside the Hollywood system. The war genre is unique among other film categories because it ...

Rule of law scarcely discourages the endless reprisals in Rachid Bouchareb’s Algerian War–era family-ties drama Outside the Law, which shows the FLN’s militant campaign for Algerian independence, as ...

Great war movies not only depict the horrors of the battlefield, but also the psychological trauma of those who participate. Of course, the films aren’t all violence and brutality: Ernst Lubitsch used ...

Ryan Heffernan is a Senior Writer at Collider. Storytelling has been one of his interests since an early age, with his appreciation for film and television becoming a particular interest of his during ...