The Battle Of Algiers

Another chance to see one of the all time great (from 1966) films; has there been better films with the content of war as its subject.
We immeditely cast our minds to 'Waltz With Bashir'. These films can't be directly compared to each other, that is not the intention. What one could argue has happened is that there has been a movement in the experience of sanctioned violence. It now no longer has this street style, the dirty compromises and so on. It is now all completely unreal, the round edges and complete unreality. Even for when it is being lived, war is now a memory, now something that no one ever experiences except through songs and slightly waspish mediation of others, that one can look at, read about, but can't touch. Even for those 'soldiers'. It is a new kind of space, no longer concrete but now cut apart by the camera, it is a sort of floating space far far away from the street and the houses that, in 'Algiers', the actors can and do constanly dissapear into.
'The Battle Of Algiers' was just as powerful on second watching. It remains the truth of the horrible cliche, 'unbearably tense', it has identification, even-handedness, but still an immensely powerful message? Is the music a little overheated? It adds great atmosphere, boduly feelings are engaged enough as it is, but all the more so.
Despite it being a repeat view, the final scenes still bring one to tears of power. The overwhelming power of the people remains in this film, and in our experience of watching it. But where else?