Dawn of the Damned (1965)

• Documentary
• History
• Drama

This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is a film about death. Its most shocking sequences derive from the captured French film archives in Algeria containing - unbelievably - masses of French-shot documentary footage of their tortures, massacres and executions of Algerians. The real death of children, passers-by, resistance fighters, one after the other, becomes unbearable. Rather than be blatant propaganda, the film convinces entirely by its visual evidence, constituting an object lesson for revolutionary cinema.

Rating

7.4 / 10 (7 votes)

Release date

July 5, 1965

Runtime

1h 25m

Language

French

Director

Ahmed Rachedi

Status

Released