Last summer, as was widely reported, folks at the Pentagon had an opportunity to watch "Battle of Algiers," the 1965 film about the Algerian uprising against the French. Presumably the film was screened as a "How Not-To" in Iraq. Lawrence Weschler, who runs the New York Institute for Humanities at New York University, and Mark Danner, writer and regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, have their own views of why the film should be required viewing. Produced by Curtis Fox.
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