Movies: Fidel Castro

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1958 - the year when Ingvar Kamprad opened the doors to his first Ikea department store in Älmhult. The World Cup is played in Sweden, where Kurre Hamrin scores a legendary goal against West Germany and Sweden takes a sensational silver. The first fe...

How long will workers be subjected to exploitation? This is the question posed by this documentary, which explores the employer-worker relationship in the country. It conducts a critical examination of the historical inequality in Chile, perpetuated ...

Alvarez' longest documentary examination of the Cuban Revolution, this contains exceptional interviews with Fidel, Raúl, Almeida, Vilma, Haydee, Celia and Faustino Perez, among other key players in the Revolution....

Did the Mafia order the killing of JFK? The compelling evidence includes a never before seen interview with an FBI informant who shared a prison cell with a Mafia kingpin....

Made by Fernando Balmaceda in 1972, it is a documentary that shows the presence of the State Technical University throughout Chile through its provincial headquarters, with teaching, scientific research, technological development, cultural extension ...

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An assessment of the first twenty-five years of the Cuban revolution. PBS Special funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and WNET in New York, featuring an interview with Fidel Castro. Narrated by Raul Julia. Filmed on Location in Cuba and...

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The Spanish dictator Francisco Franco was a rabid anti-Communist and a staunch ally of the United States. But that did not keep him from forging a friendship with a Communist nation that was America's sworn enemy: Fidel Castro's Cuba. The Spanish di...

Anonymous short documentary released immediately after the Chilean military coup of 1973. It recapitulates the presidency of Salvador Allende which was terminated by the military coup that assassinated him and installed a dictatorship. The documentar...

Host/narrator James Earl Jones explores the island of Cuba, introduces the viewer to the Cuban people and discusses the uncertainty of the country's future....

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Follows the Cuban leader into the home of a 93 year old acquaintance of Jose Marti, who is now blind and who takes the duration of the film to realize who his illustrious interviewer actually is....

Eyewitnesses, including Castro himself, look back on the period of resistance and the toppling of Batista's dictatorship. By zooming in on the individual within the collective, the detailed story of the revolution unfolds. In the oral tradition, vari...

Fidel Castro, the former President of Cuba and one of the most controversial figures of the 20th century, passed away in November. He famously claimed that "history will absolve me", but will it? This special film considers Castro and his legacy....

In November 1971, Salvador Allende and Fidel Castro chat to each other about revolution, imperialism, oligarchy, underdevelopment, cultural dependency and economics....

A deep dive into the lives and experiences of those impacted by the Fidel Castro era in Cuba....

Documentary about economic development in Cuba, particularly the effort to boost output of sugar cane. This film is made from a compilation of newsreel footage from the Cuban film institute and from Santiago Alvarez's film Despegue a las 18.00 (Depar...

Celia Sánchez Manduley (1920 - 1980) was a Cuban revolutionary, politician, researcher and archivist. She was a very close friend of Fidel Castro. She joined the struggle against the Batista government following the coup of March 10, 1952. She was th...