Drowning by Bullets

Documentary exposing the story behind a massacre of Algerian immigrants by police in Paris on October 17, 1961. 30,000 Algerians took part in a peaceful protest over the French-Algerian war. There were 11,000 arrests and allegedly 200 were killed. The programme shows how the French government suppressed the story for 30 years and interviews a number of those who took part in the events.