The Battle of Algiers - Family Review

Content Warnings

• Sexual Content

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  In an announcement on a loudspeaker, it is mentioned that prostitution has been banned.

• Violence

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  A large group of children harass a homeless alcoholic, eventually pushing and dragging him down a flight of stone stairs.

  In one scene, a man stabs an officer in the neck with a knife-we see some blood on the officer's neck as he lies on the ground dead.

  There is a montage of French soldiers torturing Algerian prisioners.

  Bombs are shown going off and killing people.

  At various times there is shooting (some of them French policemen), occasionally blood is shown.

• Profanity

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  The word "Bitch", "Hell", "Damn" and "God" are used, as well as other minor profanities.

• Intense Scenes

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  The film overall is very intense-especially the scenes of violence.

  The film is directed in a way that it looks like a documentary, so the violence in the film is very realistic and therefore quite disturbing.

  A crowd at a bombed racetrack attacks a child, trying to lynch him while French security guards rescue him and try to calm the crowd.

  Young children may be disturbed by the theme of terrorists.