Charles de Gaulle

ActingBorn 1890-11-22Lille, France

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 in order to restore democracy in France. In 1958, he came out of retirement when appointed President of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister) by President René Coty. He rewrote the Constitution of France and founded the Fifth Republic after approval by referendum. He was elected President of France later that year, a position to which he was reelected in 1965 and held until his resignation in 1969.

Charles de Gaulle

Known for (68 titles)

The American Friend

Messali Hadj - A Life In Service To The Algerian People

Espionage

War 2 War

Generations of the Algerian War

De Gaulle, le géant aux pieds d'argile

De Gaulle, le monarque et le Parlement

The Algerian War

Apocalypse: The Second World War

The Vietnam War

Congrès de Tours 1920: The Birth of the French Communist Party

1958: Those Who Said No

Des Français libres, sauver l'honneur

Kourou et l'épopée spatiale française

The Phoney War

Mitterrand et la télé

A Grin Without a Cat

The Lovely Month of May

It Was the War of Algeria

Décolonisations : du sang et des larmes

René Lévesque

39-45 en sol canadien

Apocalypse: Hitler Takes on the West

A Salute to France

Algeria 1943: A Colony Under Vichy Control

Jacques Tati, tombé de la lune

Crusade in Europe

The Killing of America

70 Years of Youth Revolt

The Arc de Triomphe: A Nation's Passion

Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer

Electronic Vibrations: A Sound Changes the World

Entretien politique : Histoire et mode d'emploi

The Smashing of the Reich

De Charles de Gaulle à Emmanuel Macron, les gardiens de l'empire

Pétain, such a popular hero

La Rabbia

De Gaulle, the Last King of France

De Gaulle, l'homme à abattre

Un peu, beaucoup, passionnément... Les Présidents et les Français

At War for Algeria

The Century of Icons

Brexit: The Uncivil War

God Chose Paris

Cent jours

Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards

A Night at the Opera

François Mitterrand & Anne Pingeot: Pieces of a Love Story

The Liberation of Paris

André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer

I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed

Sacrée Sécu

Black Is Beltza

Snows of Grenoble

Montreal Stories

The Extraordinary Seaman

De Gaulle and the Free French in World War II

Le cinéma français et l'épuration

United We Stand

1914-1945 : Les grands hommes des deux guerres