Gillo Pontecorvo Movies

  • 1992
    Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth

    Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth

    Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth

    5.71992HD

    Presented by the late literary critic Edward Said, this thirty-seven minute 1992 documentary reflects on director Gillo Pontecorvo's youth and politic...

    Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth
  • 2004
    Marxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers

    Marxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers

    Marxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers

    7.22004HD

    To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS, we revisited our edit of the film and interviews with director Gillo Pontecorvo and...

    Marxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers
  • 1946
    Outcry

    Outcry

    Outcry

    6.11946HD

    A neorealist tribute to the Italian resistance fighters of World War II.

    Outcry
  • 1992
    Return to Algiers

    Return to Algiers

    Return to Algiers

    51992HD

    Gillo Pontecorvo, who directed the insurrectionary classic The Battle of Algiers in 1966, returns to the city of Algiers to view the progress Algeria...

    Return to Algiers
  • 2005
    Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker

    Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker

    Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker

    6.72005HD

    A documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers.

    Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
  • 2018
    La Bataille d'Alger, l'empreinte

    La Bataille d'Alger, l'empreinte

    La Bataille d'Alger, l'empreinte

    102018HD

    Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo’s feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1965). Through archive images, extracts from the fi...

    La Bataille d'Alger, l'empreinte
  • 2004
    Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers

    Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers

    Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers

    102004HD

    This 17-minute documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of The Battle of Algiers (1966),released in 2004. An in-depth look at t...

    Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
  • 2007
    Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms

    Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms

    Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms

    102007HD

    Pontecorvo is one of those Italian filmmakers marked for life by neorealism. He declares that he decided to do cinema after leaving a screening of "Pa...

    Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms
  • 1984
    Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

    Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

    Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

    6.21984HD

    A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party.

    Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
  • 1996
    The Stupids

    The Stupids

    The Stupids

    4.71996HD

    An incredibly dull-witted family unknowingly stumble upon an illegal weapons deal while on the trail of their "stolen" garbage.

    The Stupids
  • 2009
    Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso

    Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso

    Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso

    02009HD

    Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
  • 1957
    The Wide Blue Road

    The Wide Blue Road

    The Wide Blue Road

    61957HD

    Squarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Like his fellow villagers, Squarciò struggles against...

    The Wide Blue Road
  • 1998
    Homo Cinematographicus

    Homo Cinematographicus

    Homo Cinematographicus

    01998HD

    Homo Cinematographicus is a human species whose unit of measurement and point of reference is the cinema and its derivative, television. Filmed at the...

    Homo Cinematographicus