Abstract
It made headlines when the prosecution screened The Battle of Algiers (1966) as evidence in a 1969–1971 New York Supreme Court case concerning over a dozen members of the Black Panther Party. According to the prosecution, the pseudo-documentary depicting a pivotal battle in the fight for Algerian Independence informed the defendants’ purported plan to bomb sites in New York City. The allegation presented a tactical link between the defendants and the anticolonial organization, the F.L.N., depicted in the film. This paper argues that the screening acted counterproductively for the prosecution, however, by highlighting and bolstering an ideological link between the F.L.N. and the Panthers, in turn reinforcing the relevance of the “colonial analogy” the Panthers popularized.
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