Patrick Rotman Movies

A look at French president Nicolas Sarkozy's rise to power.

Parisian authorities clash with the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) in director Alain Tasma’s recounting of one of the darkest...

A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.

Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of government, left his mark on the country ....

For the very first time and in complete exclusivity, Patrick Rotman films the daily work of french President François Hollande. Through an...

Faced with President François Mitterrand, Jacques Chirac embodied the opposition. In 1986, the right won the legislative elections and he...

Documentary about Ilyich Ramírez Sánchez, aka "Carlos the Jackal", international terrorist.

How, after four years of occupation, France was liberated between the spring and autumn of 1944. Patrick Rotman, writer, historian and director,...

Documentary on the French-Algerian conflict 1954-1962 which was never officially called a "war", including interviews with some of the survivors.

From Washington to Saigon, Rome to Mexico, Paris to Prague, a wave of protests shook the world. 68 looks back at the looks back at the Vietnam War,...

Ten survivors from the nazi camps speak about their struggle.

This film on torture in Algeria retraces, in its complexity, the history of torture during this war. It responds to simple questions even if the...