Special features: Indigenes: le making of = The making of Days of Glory [featurette] (25 min.); L'ami y'a bon = The colonial friend [short film] (9 min.); Previews (4 min.).

Director of photography, Patrick Blossier ; editing, Yannick Kergoat ; original music, Armand Amar et Khaled ; production designer, Dominique Douret ; costumes, Michèle Richer ; subtitles, Ian Burley.

Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Bernard Blancan, Mathieu Simonet, Benoît Giros, Mélanie Laurent, Antoine Chappey.

Originally produced as a French/Moroccan/Belgian/Algerian motion picture in 2006.

In the last years of World War II, a group of North African soldiers, largely Muslims, enlist to free France--a country they consider their motherland, even though they've never set foot in it--from the Nazis. The story is told through four characters: Abdelkader, a corporal who hopes to be promoted to sergeant; Messaoud, an ace marksman who fall in love with a beautiful Frenchwoman; Yassir, a Berber peasant who needs the money to marry off his younger brother; and Saïd, who leaves as his own father did in WWI, because he feels it's his duty. They give their all, despite getting little respect or recognition, and suffering the privations of those habitually discriminated against. These 'native' soldiers selflessly fought for a France they had never seen, and the film records their past heroics to give dignity to the generations of today and the future.

MPAA rating: Rated R for war violence and brief language.

DVD-video; Region 1; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround; letterbox widescreen presentation preserving the 2.35:1 aspect ratio of its theatrical exhibition.

In French and Arabic with optional subtitles in English or Spanish.

Winner, 2006 Cannes Film Festival awards for Best Actor: Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Bernard Blancan (Male ensemble cast); François Chalais Award: Rachid Bouchareb; winner, 2007 César for Best Writing - Meilleur scénario original (Original screenplay): Olivier Lorelle, Rachid Bouchareb.