Gillo Pontecorvo, 86, the Italian-born director of "The Battle of Algiers," a fictionalized account of a guerrilla struggle against French rule that set a bold standard in political filmmaking, died ...

Gillo Pontecorvo, born November 19, 1919 in Pisa and died October 12, 2006 in Rome, is an Italian filmmaker. Of Italian Jewish origin, Gillou Pontecorvo is the brother of Bruno Pontecorvo, a nuclear ...

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 ...

Originally released as a motion picture in 1966. Based on: Souvenirs de la Bataille d'Alger / Saadi Yacef. Accompanying booklet includes an essay by film scholar Peter Matthews; a reprinted interview ...

“Die Hard”? “Speed”? “Blown Away”? Scholars aren’t impressed with recent depictions of terrorism in Hollywood movies. But the Rand Corp.’s Bruce Hoffman says that an award-winning 1965 movie, “The ...

The re-release of Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers couldn’t come at a more crucial time. Shot in stark black and white and employing a pseudo-documentary style that was widely imitated, this ...

At 84, the Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo is being rediscovered by Americans. Pentagon officials, think-tank experts, journalists, and movie critics all agree that if you want to understand what ...

ROME - Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo, who directed the black-and-white classic "The Battle of Algiers," has died in Rome at age 86, hospital officials said Friday. Pontecorvo died Thursday night, ...