Middle Eastern and North African cinema
In the 1950s many of the struggles that began in the 1940s peaked. Egypt managed to gain independence from the British in 1952 with the Free Officers overthrowing the monarch and establishing the Ministry of National Culture and Language. Just two years later, in 1954, war breaks out in Algeria and Algeria demands independence from the French colonial forces. In 1956, Egypt gets attacked by Israel during the Suez Crisis. Morocco and Tunisia are granted independence by France in 1959 as well, but not Algeria, and Spain also gives up its territories in Morocco. By 1958 the first Lebanese Civil War begins.