Al Jazeera World released a documentary entitled "Letters of Love, Letters of War," on the 1950s war-time communications of Algerian resistance fighters who wrote heartfelt letters home in the 1950s. Few arrived, but many remained unseen until now. Algeria lived under French colonial rule for 132 years, from 1830 to 1962. Letters and correspondence provided evidence of Algeria’s long struggle to end French colonial rule in the 1950s. They enabled resistance fighters to send news to their families back home.