North Africa Movies

Documentary dialogue with young women in Algiers on their experience of independence shortly after their country's independence.

Nabila Djahnine, president of the feminist association Thirghri N'tmetout, died in hands of an armed group in Tizi Ouzou (Algeria) in 1995. The...

Travelogue released on November 27th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

This first entry in the "Believe It Or Not" series of shorts visits northern Africa. Included are a look at the Tuareg people of the Sahara Desert, a...

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Travelogue released on December 4th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Séfar (in Arabic: سيفار) is an ancient city in the heart of the Tassili n'Ajjer mountain range in Algeria, more...

In the furnace of Algiers, the camera follows and accompanies Ibrahim, Adam, and Ismael, originally from sub-Saharan Africa, in an irregular...

Travelogue released in April of 1921. Written & produced by Burton Holmes.

Travelogue released on November 11th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Travelogue released on December 11th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.