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Today, the archives of a revolution.

There was a new political horizon opening up.

The geopolitical map of the world was changing.

How a Yugoslavian filmmaker's footage unseen for decades helped Algerians win their independence.

The story of an online movement simply got written out of history.

I'm Kevin Horton, and this is The Take. The Algerian War had its final convulsion.

The granting of independence was followed by OAS murders that sent Muslims raging through the streets.

This is how American News Agency, the Associated Press, covered Algeria's victory in its

war for independence from France in 1962.

Algeria was then a mirror for many nations, and Algerian' quest to break free from French colonial rule

electrified dozens of newly independent countries across the global south, so much so that

the United Nations adopted the 1960 Declaration on the granting of independence to colonial

countries and peoples.

It was a watershed moment for a world dominated by the Cold War geopolitical chess game,

and Algerians were at the crux of it.

Once peace was restored, the Algerians went to the polls.

They confirmed the wisdom of de Gaulle's policies, as did a plebiscite in France,

and a new nation joined the world community.

It had taken eight years of bloody war, but it wasn't only weapons that yielded victory to the

Algerians. The media was as important a battlefield in this anti-colonial struggle against France.

It was incredibly important for me to gather the stories and the oral histories of the people who had been involved in this kind of media campaign and diplomatic revolution.

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