Rear Window - Battle of Algiers

A weekly program of pop culture critique, focusing on a particular film, book, musician, or other example of pop-culture. In today's program, deceased Middle East scholar Edward Said, professor at Colombia University and author of numerous writings on Palestine, discusses the importance of Gillo Pontecorvo's classic anti-colonial film Battle of Algiers. For the new generation of revolutionaries in the 1960s and 1970s as well as film buffs, Battle of Algiers, which documents the struggle of the Algerian people against French colonialism, exemplified the best of political cinema, which both entertained and inspired audiences. teleSUR