Fidel Castro
Also Known As: Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
Biography: Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and President from 1976 to 2008. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011. Under his administration, Cuba became a one-party communist state; industry and business were nationalized, and state socialist reforms were implemented throughout society. Born in Birán, Oriente, the son of a wealthy Spanish farmer, Castro adopted leftist and anti-imperialist ideas while studying law at the University of Havana. After participating in rebellions against right-wing governments in the Dominican Republic and Colombia, he planned the overthrow of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista, launching a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks in 1953. After a year's imprisonment, Castro traveled to Mexico where he formed a revolutionary group, the 26th of July Movement, with his brother Raúl Castro and Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Returning to Cuba, Castro took a key role in the Cuban Revolution by leading the Movement in a guerrilla war against Batista's forces from the Sierra Maestra. After Batista's overthrow in 1959, Castro assumed military and political power as Cuba's Prime Minister. The United States came to oppose Castro's government and unsuccessfully attempted to remove him by assassination, economic blockade, and counter-revolution, including the Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961. Countering these threats, Castro aligned with the Soviet Union and allowed the Soviets to place nuclear weapons in Cuba, resulting in the Cuban Missile Crisis – a defining incident of the Cold War – in 1962. Adopting a Marxist–Leninist model of development, Castro converted Cuba into a one-party, socialist state under Communist Party rule, the first in the Western Hemisphere. Policies introducing central economic planning and expanding healthcare and education were accompanied by state control of the press and the suppression of internal dissent. Abroad, Castro supported anti-imperialist revolutionary groups, backing the establishment of Marxist governments in Chile, Nicaragua, and Grenada, as well as sending troops to aid allies in the Yom Kippur, Ogaden, and Angolan Civil War. These actions, coupled with Castro's leadership of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1979 to 1983 and Cuba's medical internationalism, increased Cuba's profile on the world stage. Following the Soviet Union's dissolution in 1991, Castro led Cuba through the economic downturn of the "Special Period", embracing environmentalist and anti-globalization ideas. In the 2000s, Castro forged alliances in the Latin American "pink tide" – namely with Hugo Chávez's Venezuela – and formed the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas. In 2006, Castro transferred his responsibilities to Vice President Raúl Castro, who was elected to the presidency by the National Assembly in 2008. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fidel Castro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Birán, Cuba
Birthday: August 13, 1926
Deathday: November 25, 2016
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Gender: Male
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Karl Marx und seine Erben
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Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-04-28
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The Society of the Spectacle
Overview: Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-05-01
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Comandante
Overview: Oliver Stone spends three days filming with Fidel Castro in Cuba, discussing an array of subjects with the president such as his rise to power, fellow revolutionary Che Guevara, the Cuban Missile crisis, and the present state of the country.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-14
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537 Votes
Overview: Documentary chronicling the political machinations that led to the unprecedented, contested outcome of the 2000 presidential election, including the chaotic voter recount in Florida that ended with George W. Bush winning by a razor-thin margin.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-21
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Cuban Rafters
Overview: The story of Cuban refugees who risked their lives in homemade rafts to reach the United States, and what life is like for those who succeed.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-04-12
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Yanki No!
Overview: After the US forces Cuba out of the OAS, demonstrations erupt in Venezuela. In Cuba Castro addresses a rally of one million people.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-07
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Looking for Fidel
Overview: Oliver Stone's second documentary on/interview with Fidel Castro specifically addresses his country's recent crackdown on Cuban dissidents; namely, the execution of three men who hijacked a ferry to the United States.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-14
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Far from Vietnam
Overview: In seven different parts, Godard, Ivens, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War.
Genres: Documentary War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-10-18
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General Idi Amin Dada
Overview: Filmmaker Barbet Schroeder shows the Ugandan dictator meeting his Cabinet, reviewing his troops, explaining his ideology.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-05-29
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The Man Who Saved the World
Overview: During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, Soviet Navy officer Vasily Arkhipov refused to launch a nuclear strike and saved the world from nuclear war and total destruction.
Genres: Documentary History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-22
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CUBA: Defending Socialism, Resisting Imperialism
Overview: Cuba: Defending Socialism, Resisting Imperialism brings you voices from Cuba, a country fighting for social and economic justice, representing the aspirations of the poor and oppressed worldwide, building socialism in a capitalist world. The film demonstrates how vital Cuba is to the struggle for socialism in Britain and beyond.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-11
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Historien ska frikänna mig
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2016-12-31
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Laissez-faire
Overview: A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so profoundly influences the choices of our governments and our lives.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-01-30
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Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
Overview: The director's reflections on the modern politics of the Reagan administration.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files
Overview: On Nov. 22, 1963 the world was shocked by the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The mystery surrounding this history-changing event has led to many unanswered questions.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Overview: During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture, and promoting Black pride and unity. The footage from the festival sat in a basement, unseen for over 50 years, keeping this incredible event in America's history lost — until now.
Genres: Music Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-02
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And Heaven Was Taken by Storm
Overview: A chronicle of Fidel Castro's two-month tour of ten East European and African nations in mid-1972.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Fidel Castro no Rio de Janeiro, 1959
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I Am Jackie O
Overview: Jackie Kennedy Onassis was the most famous woman in the world, impossibly glamourous and universally admired. She was also complex, layered, and extremely guarded, making her endlessly fascinating and enigmatic. This incredibly compelling film provides a definitive exploration of her life, from iconic first lady to widow, unofficial royalty and fashion icon.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-26
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The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Overview: A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-05
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¡Cuba Sí!
Overview: A chronicle of the evolution of the Cuban Revolution, ending with the Bay of Pigs incident and including two interviews with Fidel Castro.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-12-31
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The Padilla Affair
Overview: Havana, spring 1971: The poet Heberto Padilla has just been set free and appears before the Cuban Writers' Union where he pronounces a statement of "heartfelt self-criticism", declares himself to be a counterrevolutionary agent and throws accusations of complicity at many of his colleagues present at the event, among them, his wife. A month previously, his arrest under the accusation of endangering the security of the Cuban state had mobilised prominent intellectuals all over the world, who wrote a letter to Fidel Castro calling for the release of the poet, whose only sin had been to dissent through his poetic work. The writer's mea culpa, the recording of which is shown for the first time to the public, marks the narrative line of a story including the testimonies of Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jorge Edwards and Fidel Castro.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-09-02
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Fidel
Overview: This film provides a unique view of Cuba's leader, containing fascinating archive footage of the Bay of Pigs invasion and scenes of Che Guevara - alongside interviews with political prisoners.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-25
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Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2
Overview: Historic Russian battles to repel invaders serve as prelude to the story of events that redrew the map of Eastern Europe and parts of Asia in the 20th century. Following the turmoil of the Bolshevik Revolution, Communist Russia faces the venom of Nazi aggression. 1940's film footage reveals the harsh reality of total war, as the Red Army and Soviet civilians alike confront a brutal and tenacious enemy. The following decades are darkened by tensions between the USSR and foreign powers, and violent measures taken to silence voices of dissent. Finally, the Soviet people's yearning for a freer society leads to accelerating reforms and the ultimate dissolution of the USSR.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-20
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Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist
Overview: A lyrical and spiritual cinematic essay on The Exorcist, the last film of Alexandre O. Philippe explores the uncharted depths of William Friedkin’s mind’s eye, the nuances of his filmmaking process, and the mysteries of faith and fate that have shaped his life and filmography.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-05
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Kubánske otázniky
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 2000-08-01
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Compromiso con Chile
Overview: 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 and the relationship with the historical moment of the country.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-01
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Chile, el gran desafío
Overview: After providing a pictorial vision of Chile, from north to south, President Salvador Allende's tour of the following countries is recorded: Mexico, Algeria, USSR, USA and Cuba. In each place, scenes of welcoming demonstrations, official acts and typical archive notes are presented.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-03-10
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Laboratory Greece
Overview: A journey through Greece and Europe’s past and recent history: from the Second World War to the current crisis. It is a historical documentary, a look into many stories. «If Democracy can be destroyed in Greece, it can be destroyed throughout Europe» Paul Craig Roberts
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-08
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Memories of Overdevelopment
Overview: An intellectual leaves the Cuban revolution and 'underdevelopment' behind only to find himself at odds with the ambiguities of his new life in the 'developed' world. A portrait of alienation, of an outsider with no clear-cut politics or ideology. A stranger in a strange land struggling with old age, sexual desire and ultimately the impossibility for the individual to belong in any society. The film's narrative is a collage of flashbacks, daydreams, and hallucinations comprising live-action, animation, and newsreel footage assembled to suggest the way personal memory works, subjectively and emotionally.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-11-26
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The Mayor
Overview: The film tells the story of Mauricio Fernandez, mayor of the wealthiest municipality in Latin America, located in the North of Mexico. He presents himself as a polemical figure who takes justice into his own hands in order to "clean" his municipality of the drug cartels' presence. Mauricio is a key character to better understand the present situation in Mexico and through the unusual views of this politician, the audience will be a privileged witnesses of an scenario where political tasks and excessive violence mingle with one another.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-08-18
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Chile: A Genral Record
Overview: In 1985, Miguel Littin returned clandestinely to Chile and made this documentary divided in four parts about the political reality of the country. The parts are titled, Miguel Littin: Clandestine in Chile; The North of Chile: When I Fled to the Pampa; From the Frontier to the Interior of Chile in Flames; and Allende: the Time of History, the film features testimony from Garcia Marquez, Fidel Castro and Hortensia Bussi. Also shown is the Chile of Augusto Pinochet and Salvador Allende. When Littin returned to Spain and finished his work, Gabriel Garcia Marquez set out to write the story of the film, published under the title Clandestine in Chile: the Adventures of Miguel Littin, which quickly became a best seller.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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CBS Reports: The CIA's Secret Army
Overview: This program examines Cuban exile terrorists living in Miami. These terrorists were secretly trained and employed by the U.S. government in the early 1960s to fight Fidel Castro. Now, without U.S. support, terrorist activities continue in Miami and Latin America. The program reviews secret U.S. policies toward Cuba in the 1960s and includes interviews with Castro and former top CIA officials. Members of this group, formerly secretly trained and employed by U.S. Government until 1967, have been active in Watergate crimes and anti-Castro terrorism including bomb explosion on Cuban Airline killing seventy-three. Includes interviews with Castro, E. Howard Hunt, Bernard Barker, and Rolando Martinez.' - The Paley Center For Media
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-10
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JFK
Overview: Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.
Genres: Drama Thriller History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-20
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Revolution's Daughter
Overview: A deep dive into the lives and experiences of those impacted by the Fidel Castro era in Cuba.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
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638 Ways to Kill Castro
Overview: Dollan Cannell's documentary on the hundreds of alleged plots to assassinate Fidel Castro, and a look at the evolution of Cuban politics. If the title of this extraordinary film sounds ludicrous, don't be fooled. This film looks at the incredible story of the 638 alleged plots by the CIA and Cuban exiles to kill the Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
Genres: History Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-28
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La Rabbia di Pasolini
Overview: An attempt to reconstruct the complete version of Pier Paolo Pasolini's segment of La rabbia.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-09-05
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Cuba: In the Shadow of Doubt
Overview: 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 Nicaragua. Chicago Film Festival Winner Gold Hugo Award Winner Honorable Mention: San Francisco Film Festival
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-21
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Rat Pack
Overview: In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford together form the "rat pack": they sing the most popular hits of the moment, star in the most profitable Hollywood films and are already making a splash on television . This documentary, produced by a recognized specialist in the history of Hollywood, recounts the exceptional destiny of this informal group which flirted with the greats of this world, notably through Sinatra, personal friend of American President Kennedy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-01-11
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Franco and Fidel: A Strange Friendship
Overview: 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 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.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-07
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A History of an Assignment
Overview: 1962 year. Cuban Missile Crisis. The world is on the brink of nuclear disaster. Khrushchev has no leverage over the stubborn commander. The only thing he could do was send someone to Cuba whom he trusted, someone who could convince Castro. This person was Anastas Mikoyan. He was accompanied on his mission by Roman Carmen, a legendary cameraman who filmed the Spanish Civil War, World War II and the Nuremberg Trials. Mikoyan's business trip lasted almost a month. Day after day, step by step, like a real psychologist, he talked with Castro and Che Guevara, listened to their calls to "die beautifully" and destroy the enemy with one blow, and tried to persuade Cuba to compromise to save the world. This film was born thanks to recently declassified documents.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2021-08-28
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The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros
Overview: This documentary tells of the extraordinary rise of Jair Bolsonaro, from relative obscurity to the ultimate seat of South American power. Told through intimate interviews with some of those closest to him including his eldest son Flávio, former government ministers, as well as his opponents, explore Bolsonaro’s brilliant yet ruthless journey to the presidency, with high-stakes drama, guns and God.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-08-30
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The Fog of War
Overview: Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, from working as a WWII whiz-kid military officer, to being the Ford Motor Company's president, to managing the Vietnam War as defense secretary for presidents Kennedy and Johnson.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-26
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I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth
Overview: Contemporary film critics regard the epic film I Am Cuba as a modern masterpiece. The 1964 Cuban/Soviet coproduction marked a watershed moment of cultural collaboration between two nations. Yet the film never found a mass audience, languishing for decades until its reintroduction as a "classic" in the 1990s. Vicente Ferraz explores the strange history of this cinematic tour de force, and the deeper meaning for those who participated in its creation.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-04-14
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Andança: Os Encontros e as Memórias de Beth Carvalho
Overview: A documentary on the career of Beth Carvalho, the Brazilian singer who became a well known samba legend from the 1970s onwards, edited together from hundreds of hours of footage and audio files kept (and partially recorded) by Carvalho herself during her lifetime.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-10-06
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The Necessary War
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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8A
Overview: The Kafkaesque world of Cuba under Castro's rule is brought to light in this reconstruction of the 1989 trial and execution of General Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, the highest-ranking general and hero of the revolution, and commander of the Angolan and Ethiopian campaigns.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Memória Cubana
Overview: Through the files of Cuban cinema news program Noticieros ICAIC Latinoamericanos, the documentary shows the most relevant events of the second half of the 20th century as seen by the documentary filmmakers of the island. During three decades and under the general direction of Santiago Álvarez, these moviemakers witnessed almost everything: from the shivers of the Cold War to Bola de Nieve's piano solos; from the discovery of the killing fields in Cambodia to the Carnation Revolution in Portugal. In 2009, the original negatives of Noticieros ICAIC Latinoamericanos were declared part of the "world memory" by UNESCO.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-09-27
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Cuba and Fidel
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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The Uncompromising Revolution
Overview: Profiles the Cuban Revolution and Fidel Castro at political middle age. The Cuban leader reflects on his life and Cuba — past, present and future – and declares his continuing faith in communism. In numerous other interviews, including encounters with people on the streets, Cuban citizens voice their pro and con feelings about the revolution and Cuban society.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Hello Cubans
Overview: A photo montage of Cubans filmed by Agnès Varda during her visit to Cuba in 1963, four years after Fidel Castro came to power. This black & white documentary explores their socialist culture and society while making use of 1500 pictures (out of 4000!) the filmmaker took while on the island.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-11-26
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Did the Mob Kill JFK?
Overview: 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.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-22
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Island Ablazed
Overview: Documentary recounting the story of the Cuban Revolution and its impact on the young people of Cuba.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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The Day That Lasted 21 Years
Overview: Stunning espionage documentary on the US conspiracy that led to the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état. John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson original White House tapes, and CIA Top Secret documents reveal how the US government planned to overthrow Brazilian elected president João Goulart.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-09-30
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The Kennedy Detail
Overview: Based on the book by Gerald S. Blaine With Lisa McCubbin "The Kennedy Detail", this documentary interviews the men who served on President JFK's Secret Service Detail and their memories of the man, president, and perceptions of Camelot. Some of these men were there on the fateful day when life changed on the streets of Dallas, TX in Dealey Plaza on November 22nd, 1963.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-02
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My Brother, Fidel
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Lejos de la isla
Overview: Prior to Fidel Castro's reign, Cuba was open to immigration. However, once Castro proclaimed himself dictator of Cuba, one of the largest exodus recorded began, one that continues today, 47 years after the Cuban Revolution. Six central characters of the film discuss in detail their personal experiences through Operation Pedro Pan, the Freedom Flights, El Mariel, the Rafter Crisis, and the Cuban Visa Lottery.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-25
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Venceremos, solidaridad
Overview: 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 documentary captures the aftermath of the event and the efforts of international protesters and diplomats in their claim for justice.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-12-31
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Waiting for Fidel
Overview: This feature-length documentary from 1974 takes viewers inside Fidel Castro's Cuba. A movie-making threesome hope that Fidel himself will star in their film. The unusual crew consists of former Newfoundland premier Joseph Smallwood, radio and TV owner Geoff Stirling and NFB film director Michael Rubbo. What happens while the crew awaits its star shows a good deal of the new Cuba, and also of the three Canadians who chose to film the island. (NFB)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-14
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Becoming Cousteau
Overview: Adventurer, filmmaker, inventor, author, unlikely celebrity and conservationist: For over four decades, Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his explorations under the ocean became synonymous with a love of science and the natural world. As he learned to protect the environment, he brought the whole world with him, sounding alarms more than 50 years ago about the warming seas and our planet’s vulnerability. In BECOMING COUSTEAU, from National Geographic Documentary Films, two-time Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Liz Garbus takes an inside look at Cousteau and his life, his iconic films and inventions, and the experiences that made him the 20th century’s most unique and renowned environmental voice — and the man who inspired generations to protect the Earth.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-22
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Being Fidel Castro
Overview: Through the voice of an impersonator, the cuban hero will recount with us his political career. This tender, caustic yet authentic portrait will take us through his life from euphoria to revolt, from hollow laugh to genuine cheerfulness. Here comes... "En la Piel de Fidel".
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-01-19
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The Cuban Game
Overview: A documentary depicting Cuba/US relations through baseball.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-23
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Castro in Winter
Overview: After directing two documentaries on Fidel Castro in 2002 ("Comandante") and 2003 ("Looking for Fidel"), filmmaker Oliver Stone returned to interview Castro in 2009 for the first in-depth conversation since Castro had stepped down as president and recovered from colon surgery. In this new film, Castro is interviewed at home, surrounded by his family. The stimulating conversation is friendly and casual, as Castro offers his perspective on current leaders such as President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as well as controversial events such as the coup in Honduras, upheaval in Iran, and the collapse of the Soviet Union's effect on the Cuban economic model. Castro also reflects on some of the defining moments of his life during the last 50 years, including John F. Kennedy's assassination and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-03
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Che Guevara - Hasta La Victoria Siempre
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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The Hour of the Furnaces
Overview: An impassioned three-part documentary of the liberation struggle waged throughout Latin America, using Argentina as a historical example of the imperialist exploitation of the continent. Part I: Neo-Colonialism and Violence is a historical, geographic, and economic analysis of Argentina. Part II: An Act For Liberation examines the ten-year reign of Juan Perón (1945-55) and the activities of the Peronist movement after his fall from power. Part III: Violence and Liberation studies the role of violence in the national liberation process and constitutes a call for action.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-09-08
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Nobody
Overview: Half blind and half deaf, ostraziced Cuban writer Rafael Alcides tries to finish his unpublished novels to discover that after several decades, the home made ink from the typewriter he used to write them has faded. The Cuban revolution as a love story and eventual deception is seen through the eyes of a man who is living an inner exile.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-01-13
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Un Giorno con Fidel
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Cuba 30 Anni Dopo
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Fidel Racconta il Che
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Ernesto Che Guevara - Uomo, Compagno, Amico
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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South of the Border
Overview: A road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media's misperception of South America while interviewing seven of its elected presidents.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-07
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Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers
Overview: Swedish documentary film on consumerism and globalization, created by director Erik Gandini and editor Johan Söderberg. It looks at the arguments for capitalism and technology, such as greater efficiency, more time and less work, and argues that these are not being fulfilled, and they never will be. The film leans towards anarcho-primitivist ideology and argues for "a simple and fulfilling life".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-21
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El Diálogo de América
Overview: In November 1971, Salvador Allende and Fidel Castro chat to each other about revolution, imperialism, oligarchy, underdevelopment, cultural dependency and economics.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-06-01
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Looking for Fidel
Overview: A man living in the USA is nauseated by the media power and Consumerism, decides to go to Cuba with the intention of meeting Fidel Castro. The man is looking for revolution and socialism for a better future for everybody... But he finds a different Cuba from what he thought. Nostalgic, sad, tired of a strong prohibitionist, and of a shortage of speaking and thinking freedom, for a difficult human situation (before a politic idea).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-06-19
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Two Meetings and a Funeral
Overview: Two Meetings and a Funeral explores Bangladesh’s historical pivot from the socialism of the 1973 Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting in Algeria to its ideological counterpoint, the emergence of a strong Islamic perspective at the 1974 Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) meeting in Lahore. Centred on Bangladesh’s navigation of these two historic meetings, as well as its fight for United Nations recognition (vetoed by China, acting as a proxy for Pakistan), the film considers the erosion of the idea of the Third World as a potential space for decolonialism, liberation theology and socialism. In particular, it looks at how a transnational Islamic ‘ummah’ concept was used against socialist forces.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-07
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Fidel Castro: America's Nemesis
Overview: 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.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-28
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RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy
Overview: A new investigative documentary exploring the controversies surrounding the assassination of Bobby Kennedy on June 5, 1968 as he looked set to challenge Nixon for the White House. Munir Sirhan tells how his brother Sirhan has never been able to remember the shooting. Sandra Serrano speaks for the first time in forty years about the girl in the polka-dot dress fleeing the scene, yelling "We shot him! We shot him!" And Dr. Herbert Spiegel of Columbia University describes how Sirhan was hypnotically programmed to kill Robert Kennedy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-20
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General Assembly
Overview: In Asamblea general (1960), the documentary about Fidel's address of the First Declaration of Havana in the Plaza of the Revolution, Alea practises what becomes a sustaining Cuban contribution to documentary. Engaging with Free Cinema and cinema-vérité, his camera seems to touch the faces of the new citizen one by one rather than as a single mass before a leader.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-01
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Cuba and the Cameraman
Overview: This revealing portrait of Cuba follows the lives of Fidel Castro and three Cuban families affected by his policies over the last four decades.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-08
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Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn
Overview: The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adventures, loves and excess was largely played out in front of the camera - either making movies or filling the newsreels and gossip magazines. Tragically he was dead from the effects of drugs and alcohol by the time he was only 50 & the myths live on. But there is another side of Flynn that is less well known - his ambitions to be a serious writer and newspaper correspondent, his documentary films and his interest in the Spanish Civil War and Castro's Cuba
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-17
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Celia - la más hermosa flor
Overview: 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 the founder of the 26th of July Movement in Manzanillo. Together with Frank País, she was one of the first women to assemble a combat squad during the revolution.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-10-10
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Chop Chop Chang: Operation C.H.I.M.P
Overview: The incredible story of Chop Chop Chang, a world famous circus chimpanzee who is secretly trained by the CIA into a deadly assassin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-11
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Another Day of Life
Overview: In 1975, Ryszard Kapuściński, a veteran Polish journalist, embarked on a seemingly suicidal road trip into the heart of the Angola's civil war. There, he witnessed once again the dirty reality of war and discovered a sense of helplessness previously unknown to him. Angola changed him forever: it was a reporter who left Poland, but it was a writer who returned…
Genres: Animation Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-26
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Improper Conduct
Overview: The story of the persecution of homosexuals and intellectuals in Cuba under Fidel Castro's dictatorship, from the beginning of the Cuban Revolution (1953-59) until the early 1980s. Interviews with relevant personalities of Cuban culture who suffered persecution demonstrate that concentration camps for gays existed in Cuba.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-03-21
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Angola: The War
Overview: For twenty-three years, five western nations, members of the Soviet bloc and two superpowers were locked into a war never formally declared. It all began in 1966. Once the Draft started, every able-bodied white South African male was called up for service.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-01
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Muerte al invasor
Overview: Short documentary about Cuba's resistance to American invasion.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-07-25
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Castro: The World's Most Watched Man
Overview: Fidel Castro employed a vast spy network that helped him remain in power.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-10-22
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Jack Paar: Smart Television
Overview: PBS documentary examining the work of Jack Paar.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-29
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Cuba: Battle of the 10,000,000
Overview: 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 (Departure 18:00).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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The CIA's War Against Cuba
Overview: "The CIA's War Against Cuba" - a briefing of the past ten years of CIA activities in Cuba, and the agents and other staff involved by the Dirección General de Inteligencia (DGI). DGI executed a parade of CIA agents active in Cuba, technology used, arms caches, journalists and other correspondents involved in intelligence tasks. This action was taken by Fidel Castro when his top agent Florention Aspillaga defected to the US via their embassy in Vienna, which immediately was followed by more defections and disclosure of so-called double agents. "La guerra de la CIA contra Cuba" was being broadcasted in 11 episodes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-01-11
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Santiago Files
Overview: President Salvador Allende's topple from Chile's unstable government and the CIA's involvement in the September Coup that would turn the South American socialist country into a dictatorship.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-23
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Elián
Overview: The story of Elián Gonzalez, a five-year-old Cuban boy plucked from the Florida Straits, and how the fight for his future changed the course of U.S.-Cuba relations. Featuring personal testimony, interviews, and a news archive, this documentary recounts Elián’s remarkable rescue on Thanksgiving Day in 1999, after his mother and 10 others fleeing Cuba perished at sea, and the custody battle between the boy’s Cuban father and his Miami-based relatives.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-21
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Cuba, un aller et un retour
Overview: According to the official Cuban version, Fidel Castro died on his bed on November 25, 2016. Sixty years after his arrival on the island, with his troop of guerrillas who came to fight the Batista dictatorship, the director went to meet Cubans who talk about the Lider Maximo, who escaped - according to rumor - more than 630 assassination attempts! For his funeral, Fidel Castro had orchestrated a spectacular procession before his death so that his ashes crossed the island on the same route - in reverse - that he carried out when he was young.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-12-31
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Cuba, el valor de una utopía
Overview: 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, various Cubans report on oppression, violence, arrests, kidnappings, shootouts, escapes, the guerrilla fight from the mountains and the subsequent triumphant entry into Havana. Their stories are interspersed with archive footage and pictures showing the beauty of contemporary Cuba. In this film, the revolutionary generation muses on the situation on the island 47 years after the heroic revolution.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-01
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Topaz
Overview: Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and bloody spy war in which his own family will play a decisive role.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-17
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Wasp Network
Overview: Havana, Cuba, 1990. René González, an airplane pilot, unexpectedly flees the country, leaving behind his wife Olga and his daughter Irma, and begins a new life in Miami, where he becomes a member of an anti-Castro organization.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-29
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I Am a Son of America
Overview: Recollections of Fidel Castro's visit to Chile on November, 1971, and of the historical imperialist exploitation of Latin America.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-01-02
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Oswald's Ghost
Overview: For the Baby Boomers, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy took on the same sense of tragedy as the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks did for Generation Y - not only for the effect that it had on the nation's morale but for the conspiracy theories that would follow in its wake as well. In the aftermath of the assassination,
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-14
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Brascuba
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-06-25
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Cuban Rebel Girls
Overview: Errol Flynn, playing himself as a war correspondent, reports the dangerous goings-on of a band of Cuban rebels- Two of which are misguided teenage girls from America. The film was shot with Castro's cooperation while he was still fighting Batista's forces.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-25
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Ethel
Overview: Filmmaker Rory Kennedy interviews her mother, Ethel Kennedy, who discusses family, marriage and politics.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-20
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Salvador Allende
Overview: A leftist revolutionary or a reformist democrat? A committed Marxist or a constitutionalist politician? An ethical and moral man or, as Richard Nixon called him, a "son of a bitch"? In SALVADOR ALLENDE, acclaimed Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán (The Battle of Chile and Chile, Obstinate Memory) returns to his native country thirty years after the 1973 military coup that overthrew Chile's Popular Unity government to examine the life of its leader, Salvador Allende, both as a politician and a man.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-09-08
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Chavismo: The Plague of the 21st Century
Overview: An analysis of the causes, social, political, and economic that caused the rise of Hugo Chávez as president of Venezuela; his abuse of power and the response of civil society, including the student movement; his political fall as well as the secrecy that surrounded his illness and the succession of Nicolás Maduro.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-06-15
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Amérique latine, l'année de tous les dangers
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-03-15
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Assassinating Franco
Overview: Documentary about the attempts to assassinate Franco
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-25
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The War on Democracy
Overview: Set both in Latin America and the United States, the film explores the historic and current relationship of Washington with countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile. Pilger says that the film "...tells a universal story... analysing and revealing, through vivid testimony, the story of great power behind its venerable myths. It allows us to understand the true nature of the so-called "war on terror". According to Pilger, the film’s message is that the greed and power of empire is not invincible and that people power is always the "seed beneath the snow".
Genres: History Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-15
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On Company Business
Overview: A controversial three part critical documentary on the history of the CIA.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-14
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American Expose: Who Murdered JFK?
Overview: Investigative reporter Jack Anderson hosts a two-hour investigation of the Kennedy Assassination featuring interviews with experts, eyewitnesses, government officials and authors. Includes dramatic recreations of key events.
Genres: Documentary History Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-02
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El Che
Overview: Ernesto "Che" Guevara's controversial story told by the Mexican writer Paco Ignacio Taibo II. He revisits places where the guerrilla and revolutionary leader has passed and interviews people who knew Che, making revelations about this important figure in Cuba's political history.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-09-01
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Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
Overview: This spellbinding documentary re-examines the issues raised by Oliver Stone's JFK, and explores the late Jim Garrison's contention that there was a "second conspiracy" to cover up the truth, including attempts to ruin his own reputation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-20
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Dear Fidel: Marita's Story
Overview: Marita Lorenz, the daughter of a German sea captain, recalls how she became the mistress of Fidel Castro in Havana soon after the Cuban revolution in 1959. After being six months pregnant with his baby, she was drugged and given a near fatal abortion. She was then recruited by the CIA and Mafia to assassinate Castro, but she threw away the poison pills just before she met Fidel. She then worked for the CIA in Florida and, in 1962, had a daughter while she was the mistress of an ex-dictator of Venezuela. She later married an FBI agent, by whom she had a son, and they spied on UN diplomats in a New York apartment. She claimed her spying days were over when she testified, in the 1977 Kennedy Assassination Inquiry, about her connection to Frank Sturgis and Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-11-14
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Fidel Castro: Life for the Revolution
Overview: Castro has outlived generations of US Presidents, Soviet General Secretaries, CIA Directors and would-be assassins. This film offers a psychological profile of the Cuban revolutionary, and a deeply intimate account of his life based on private letters, correspondence, speeches and interviews. It features interviews with some of Fidel Castro's closest relatives, close friends and committed enemies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-26
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Naqoyqatsi
Overview: A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-02
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7 Days in Havana
Overview: A lesbian, an aspiring actor, an aspiring singer, a low-class marriage, a neighborhood community and 2 renowned directors have memorable less-than-24-hour-long experiences while living in/visiting the capital of Cuba.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-04-05
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ReMastered: Massacre at the Stadium
Overview: For years, the murder of Chilean protest singer Victor Jara was blamed on an official in Pinochet's army. Now in exile, he tries to exonerate himself.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-11
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The Inconclusive Independence
Overview: Documentary about the independence and history of Latin America.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-01-05
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A Grin Without a Cat
Overview: French essay film focusing on global political turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, particularly the rise of the New Left in France and the development of socialist movements in Latin America.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-11-23
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Portrait of Castro's Cuba
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-07
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Mission Mind Control
Overview: Uncovering government agencies (especially the CIA) that secretly tested the effects of LSD on humans.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-30
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The Exploitation of Man by Man
Overview: 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 by foreign imperialists and Chilean capitalists. In the same vein, it delves into the implementation of Agrarian Reform under three different administrations: Alessandri, Frei Montalva, and Allende.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-10-18
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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Overview: Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest episodes of the Cold War. In 1960, the UN became the stage for a political earthquake as the struggle for independence in the Congo put the world on high alert. The newly independent nation faced its first coup d'état, orchestrated by Western forces and Belgium, which were reluctant to relinquish control over their resource-rich former colony. The US tried to divert attention by sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the African continent. In 1961, Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba was brutally assassinated, silencing a key voice in the fight against colonialism; his death was facilitated by Belgian and CIA operatives. Musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach took action, denouncing imperialism and structural racism. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev intensified his criticism of the US, highlighting the racial barriers that characterized American society.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-09-11
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Året var 1962
Overview: 1962 - the year when Anita Lindblom sings Sånt är livet on TV and the Swedish national ice hockey team wins gold in Colorado. Ursula Wirth and Ewy Rosqvist win Argentina's Gran Premio for standard cars in fierce competition. The Third World War almost breaks out - the Cuban Missile Crisis pits the superpowers the USA and the Soviet Union against each other. Leif Erik Nygårds is in New York and takes a picture of Marilyn Monroe, just a few weeks before she dies. Bobby Fischer plays chess in Stockholm and wins.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2012-01-08
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Året var 1958
Overview: 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 female police officers start serving this year with the same duties as the male police officers, however, they were not allowed to carry a saber but had to settle for a baton.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2008-01-06
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El día más largo
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
Overview: illustrates how directors pushed boundaries and altered the art of filmmaking during the turbulent, swinging 1960s. Narrated by Woody Harrelson, "Reel Radicals" features clips from such seminal films as Arthur Penn's "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967); Mike Nichols' "The Graduate" (1967); Dennis Hopper's "Easy Rider" (1969); John Frankenheimer's "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962); Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove" (1964) and "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968); John Schlesinger's "Midnight Cowboy" (1969); Richard Brooks' "Elmer Gantry" (1960) and "In Cold Blood" (1967); and Norman Jewison's "In the Heat of the Night" (1967) and "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1968). Frankenheimer, Jewison, Hopper, Schlesinger, Penn, Buck Henry, Paul Mazursky, Roger Corman and Arthur Hiller are among the filmmakers who discuss the decade.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-02
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