Beyond Endless Struggle: What The Battle of Algiers Still Teaches Us About Revolution

By Sam Ben-Meir * NEW YORK | 11 November 2026 (IDN) —In Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another (2025), Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, Bob Ferguson, a disillusioned former revolutionary, watches Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers (1966) on television. The juxtaposition is almost comical: a man whose revolutionary aspirations have collapsed into private survival contemplates […]

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