Special Features
Disc one: ; High-definition transfer, supervised by director of photography Marcello Gatti, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack ; Gillo Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship Truth, a documentary narrated by literary critic Edward Said; Morxist poetry: The making of "The Battle of Algiers," a documentary featuring interviews with Pontecorvo, Gatti, and composer Ennio Morricone, among others ; Interviews with Spike Lee, Mira Nair, Julian Schnabel, Steven Soderbergh, and Oliver Stone on the film's influence, style, and importance; Production gallery ; Theatrical and rerelease trailers ; Disc two: History and the Film: ; Remembering History a documentary on the Algerian experience of the battle for independence ; "États d'armes," a documentary exerpt featuring senior French military officers recalling the use of torture and execution to combat the Algerian rebellion; "The Battle of Algiers": A Case Study, a video piece featuring U.S. counterterrorism experts; Gillo Pontecorvo's Return to Algiers, a documentary in which the filmmaker revisits the country after three decades of independece