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I hadn't realised (or had forgotten) that he did the soundtrack for Battle of Algiers too:
It's a really good film too, historically pretty accurate according to Sir Alistair Horne.
Decades since I saw 'Battle of Algiers' and I never knew that Morricone was responsible for the soundtrack but it is one of those films that 'stays' with you, especially when the second Gulf War and the Arab Spring came around. In a similar vein are Rosselini's 'Rome, Open City' and 'Paisà ', the first of which is said to have influenced Pontecorvo.