The French Tenth Para-troop Division is sent to Algiers to combat FLN terrorism in the City.  A biography of General Massu, the commander of the Tenth Para-troop Division.  The French para-troops use torture to gain information on the FLN.  More than three thousand suspected FLN supporters are murdered by the French Army in Algiers.  The power of the FLN in Algiers is broken.

The number of French troops sent to Algeria increase to a massive half a million but they even large a force can not defeat the FLN.  The FLN begins a campaign of terrorism in the City of Algiers killing and maiming Pied Noir civilians.  A biography of FLN leader in Algiers, Abane.  The French governor decides to sent in the Paratroops into Algiers 

French Army reinforcements are sent to Algeria but they can not defeat the FLN.  A biography of FLN military leader Krim.  In August 1955, in and around the town of Phillipeville the FLN carry out a massacre of Pied Noir civilians.  In return the French Army murder local Muslims civilians.  These events polarise the Pied Noir and Muslim populations.

Proposed reforms for Algeria, are frustrated by the French Colonial Officials.  Young Algerian Muslims begin to believe that can be no chance of equality with independence and that can only achieved by violence.  A biograph of the militant Ben Bella.  The Algerian War of Independence begin on All Saints Day 1954.