Watch The Battle of Algiers

Meursault shoots an Arab on a beach because of the sun; Camus in a hundred pages.

Ottoman-era citadel quarter stacked above the bay of Algiers.

Costa-Gavras on the assassination of a Greek deputy and the cover-up; thriller as journalism.

A thief is made to impersonate a dead warlord to hold a clan together.

Orwell fights in the Spanish Civil War, is shot through the throat and sees the revolution betrayed.

T. E. Lawrence's own account of the Arab Revolt.

Watch Stanley Kubrick's anti-war film Paths of Glory, set during World War I.

Watch Fear and Desire, Stanley Kubrick's first feature film from 1953