The Battle of Algiers
Sunday, March 8, 2026
Doors 1pm, Screening 2pm

On Sunday, March 8, in collaboration with Texas Tech University Students for Justice in Palestine, Texas Tech University Student Intersectional Leadership Council, and the Decolonial Theory Reading Group, CO-OPt will be screening the classic Battle of Algiers (1966).

One of the most politically urgent films of all time, Gillo Pontecorvo’s film does not reconstruct the Algerian War from a detached vantage point; it feels as though it is occurring in the present tense.

Most of the actors in the film took part in the actual Algerian resistance, adding a realism to it that other war films have tried to emulate ever since.