Description
- New high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Marcello Gatti, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Gillo Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth, a documentary narrated by literary critic Edward Said
- Marxist Poetry: The Making of “The Battle of Algiers,” a documentary featuring interviews with Pontecorvo, Gatti, composer Ennio Morricone, and others
- Interviews with Spike Lee, Mira Nair, Julian Schnabel, Steven Soderbergh, and Oliver Stone on the film’s influence, style, and importance
- Remembering History, a documentary reconstructing the Algerian experience of the battle for independence
- “États d’armes,” a documentary excerpt featuring senior French military officers recalling the use of torture and execution to combat the Algerian rebellion
- “The Battle of Algiers”: A Case Study, a video piece featuring U.S. counterterrorism experts
- Gillo Pontecorvo’s Return to Algiers, a documentary in which the filmmaker revisits the country after three decades of independence
- Production gallery
- Theatrical and rerelease trailers
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar Peter Matthews, a reprinted interview with cowriter Franco Solinas, biographical sketches of key figures in the French-Algerian War, and, for the Blu-ray edition, excerpts from Algeria’s National Liberation Front leader Saadi Yacef’s original account of his arrest and excerpts from the film’s screenplay
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