Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo, who directed the black-and-white classic “The Battle of Algiers,” has died in Rome, hospital officials said Friday. He was 86. Pontecorvo died Thursday night, ...

2006-10-14 04:00:00 PDT Rome-- Gillo Pontecorvo, the Italian filmmaker who explored terrorism and torture in colonial Algeria in his powerful and influential 1965 classic "The Battle of Algiers," died ...

Gillo Pontecorvo, the Italian filmmaker best known for directing Battle of Algiers (1966), died October 12 at a hospital in Rome at the age of 86. The cause of death was not immediately revealed, but ...

Saadi Yacef, as revolutionary leader El-hadi Jaffar (second from left) and Brahim Haggiag (right) as revolutionary leader Ali La Pointe in a scene from Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle Of Algiers. In the ...

ITALIAN filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo, who directed the black-and-white classic The Battle of Algiers, died in Rome on Thursday, aged 86. The cause of his death was not given, but reports said he had ...

Watching Gillo Pontecorvo’s classic film, The Battle of Algiers, nearly 40 years after its initial release is both exhilarating and educational. There is not one false moment in the film.

Gillo Pontecorvo, director of the 1965 film The Battle of Algiers (see: “A timeless portrait of the anti-colonial struggle in Algeria”) spoke recently by phone to Maria Esposito from the World ...

Marlon Brando week concludes at Trailers from Hell with screenwriter Larry Karaszewski introducing "Burn!," Gillo Pontecorvo's follow-up to "The Battle of Algiers." Director Gillo Pontecorvo followed ...

Politically passionate Italo helmer Gillo Pontecorvo, whose realistic re-construction of urban clashes between Algerian nationalists and French troops, “The Battle of Algiers,” became a ...