Is The Battle of Algiers (1966) CHUD or WOKE?
chudrank score: 75 / 100 (WOKE-leaning (left-wing)). 0 is CHUD (right-wing), 100 is WOKE (left-wing).
Movie: Drama, War, History, 1966.
10 votes: 80% WOKE, 20% CHUD.
Why: Anti-colonial insurgency film, complex and left-leaning
Former petty criminal Ali la Pointe becomes a commander of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale, directing a guerilla insurgency against the colonial French occupation. Paratrooper commander Colonel Phillippe Mathieu, a veteran of World War II and the First Indochina War, is sent to Algeria to reinforce efforts to squelch the uprisings.