It Was the War of Algeria

Ahmed Ben Bella

Self - First President of Algeria (archive footage)

Ferhat Abbas

Self - President of the Algerian Republic (archive footage)

Bachir Hadj Ali

Self - ALN Officer

Slimane Zeghidour

Self - Journalist

Kateb Yacine

Self - Poet

Louis Gardel

Self - Novelist

Germaine Tillion

Self - Ethnologist (voice) (archive footage)

Yacef Saâdi

Self - FLN Member

Zohra Drif-Bitat

Self - Moudjahidine

Henri Alleg

Self - Journalist (archive footage)

Ali Haroun

Self

Paul Teitgen

Self (archive footage)

Saïd Mohammedi

Self - ALN chief officer (archive footage)

Yamina Benguigui

Self - Daughter of an Algerian Nationalist

Nicole Garcia

Self - French from Algeria

John F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self (voice) (archive footage)

Charles de Gaulle

Self (archive footage)

Georges-Marc Benamou

Writer, Director

Benjamin Stora

Writer