FREE SCREENING! You wouldn’t be wrong thinking that Gillo Pontecorvo’s Battle of Algiers is a historical document. Blending documentary style film-making with the Italian “cinema veritas” ethic, Pontecorvo crafts a portrait of the actions taking by Algerian rebels against the French during the Algerian War with exceptional, realistic detail. With a mostly non-professional cast (many of whom actually participated in the events depicted), the film is a perfect example of cinema’s power not just to tell stories, but to relay facts that otherwise might be lost to history.