Dawn of the Damned
1965, French. Directed by Ahmed Rachedi.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- French
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- Released
- 5 July 1965
- Original title
- L'Aube des Damnés
- Country
- Algeria
- Written by
- Ahmed Rachedi, Mouloud Mammeri, René Vautier
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Dawn of the Damned isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 5 July 1965. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
What movies are like Dawn of the Damned?
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Who directed Dawn of the Damned?
Dawn of the Damned (1965) was directed by Ahmed Rachedi and stars Mouloud Mammeri, Mohamed Chouikh, René Vautier.