YMMV / The Battle of Algiers

• Americans Hate Tingle: This film has been banned in France and has even caused outrage there, because of the negative portrayal of the French side and the positive portrayal of the Algerian one, notably the Algerian National Liberation Front (it still even exists today, but as the Algerian sole official political party), which is reviled and demonized in France for having killed and persecuted pied-noir and Algerian Jewish civilians as well as harki militaries, something that even in real life, the Algerian government has never regretted nor has been condemned for nor apologized for them, unlike the French one. Yet, it got positive reviews, but is, at best, obscure there.
• Awesome Music: The Ennio Morricone score.
• Misaimed Fandom: Perhaps inevitably, some American/European viewers of Algiers will side with the French.
• Values Resonance: It became a surprise hit in the United States in its original release, both because of the eerie similarities in the France/FLN conflict and what was going on in the Vietnam War, and the rise of militant groups who took the FLN as a role model. Then in 2003 it gained renewed notice because of how much the situation in Algiers was like the one in Baghdad. The Pentagon even sponsored a screening as a demonstration of how an organized army can fall victim to guerrilla attacks.