The Battle of Algiers

Saw The Battle of Algiers. It was a shot in a pseudo-documentary style. The filmmaker had obviously gone to lengths to make sure the content matched reality, so it seems hard to comment on the film without becoming (or already being) a bit of a historian. Of course though the film is historical fiction it is still fiction and thus has its own little moments of audience-manipulation and plot development. The story is quite bare however, mostly declaring via voice-over that thus-and-such happened. It didn't obviously take sides, so I liked it.