Christopher Nolan screened The Battle of Algiers for his crew as an operational blueprint for how to shoot urban warfare — the verité approach, the documentary realism, the sense that what we're watching is happening in real time. Bane's takeover of Gotham mirrors Pontecorvo's depiction of insurgency: tactical, patient, willing to endure casualties. In a 2012 DGA interview, Nolan was explicit: Pontecorvo showed him how to make terrorism feel inevitable rather than sensationalized. The Battle of Algiers is available on MUBI.