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La Battaglia di Algeri (English: The Battle of Algiers) is based on the 1962 memoir novel Souvenirs de la Bataille d'Alger, written by Algerian Saadi Yacef, one of the military chiefs of Algeria's National Liberation Front.

It was the French setting the bomb. The movie shows the group of French men gathered at one of their houses then setting out to what they tell the wife is going to be a casual get-together. They get past the guard into the Arab sector, then place the bomb in front of a house. Their plan was to plant a bomb and then blame it on the terrorists, thereby winning back Arab support by promising that the French would protect them.

Viewers who have seen The Battle of Algiers have also recommended seeing Chronik der Jahre der Glut (1975), another portrayal of Algeria's struggle for independence from French colonial rule. Sie Fürchten Weder Tod Noch Teufel (1966) depicts the Algerian War from the French perspective. Die vier Federn (2002) and Khartoum - Aufstand am Nil (1966) are both set in 1880s Sudan. Xala (1975) is a satire about post-colonial Senegal following its independence from France. Mister Johnson (1990) is set in 1923 British Colonial Nigeria, and Omar Mukhtar - Löwe der Wüste (1980) is about the resistance against Italian occupation in Libya during the reign of Mussolini. Lawrence von Arabien (1962) concerns the Arab revolt against the Turks in the Great War and its aftermath. For films set in South Africa, there is Zulu - Die Schlacht von Rorke's Drift (1964), set in 1898 Natal, Der Fall des Lieutnant Morant (1980) about the Boer War of the early 20th century, and Die Wilby-Verschwörung (1975) set in apartheid era South Africa in the 1970s.