Movies: Fidel Castro

  • 2003
    Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers

    Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers (2003)

    Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers

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    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 thes...

    Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers
  • 2005
    I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth

    I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth (2005)

    I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth

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    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 de...

    I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth
  • 1975
    Waiting for Fidel

    Waiting for Fidel (1975)

    Waiting for Fidel

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    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 owne...

    Waiting for Fidel
  • 2006
    638 Ways to Kill Castro

    638 Ways to Kill Castro (2006)

    638 Ways to Kill Castro

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    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 sto...

    638 Ways to Kill Castro
  • 2007
    Oswald's Ghost

    Oswald's Ghost (2007)

    Oswald's Ghost

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    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 conspirac...

    Oswald's Ghost
  • 1995
    Ernesto Che Guevara - Uomo, Compagno, Amico

    Ernesto Che Guevara - Uomo, Compagno, Amico (1995)

    Ernesto Che Guevara - Uomo, Compagno, Amico

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    Ernesto Che Guevara - Uomo, Compagno, Amico
  • 2003
    Jack Paar: Smart Television

    Jack Paar: Smart Television (2003)

    Jack Paar: Smart Television

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    PBS documentary examining the work of Jack Paar....

    Jack Paar: Smart Television
  • 2004
    Looking for Fidel

    Looking for Fidel (2004)

    Looking for Fidel

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    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....

    Looking for Fidel
  • 1973
    Chile, el gran desafío

    Chile, el gran desafío (1973)

    Chile, el gran desafío

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    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 typi...

    Chile, el gran desafío
  • 1972
    I Am a Son of America

    I Am a Son of America (1972)

    I Am a Son of America

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    Recollections of Fidel Castro's visit to Chile on November, 1971, and of the historical imperialist exploitation of Latin America....

    I Am a Son of America
  • 2012
    Castro in Winter

    Castro in Winter (2012)

    Castro in Winter

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    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 re...

    Castro in Winter
  • 2011
    Santiago Files

    Santiago Files (2011)

    Santiago Files

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    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....

    Santiago Files
  • 2012
    The Day That Lasted 21 Years

    The Day That Lasted 21 Years (2012)

    The Day That Lasted 21 Years

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    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 el...

    The Day That Lasted 21 Years
  • 1979
    Mission Mind Control

    Mission Mind Control (1979)

    Mission Mind Control

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    Uncovering government agencies (especially the CIA) that secretly tested the effects of LSD on humans....

    Mission Mind Control
  • 1984
    Improper Conduct

    Improper Conduct (1984)

    Improper Conduct

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    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 ...

    Improper Conduct
  • 2003
    Che Guevara - Hasta La Victoria Siempre

    Che Guevara - Hasta La Victoria Siempre (2003)

    Che Guevara - Hasta La Victoria Siempre

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    Che Guevara - Hasta La Victoria Siempre
  • 1969
    Revolution's Daughter

    Revolution's Daughter (1969)

    Revolution's Daughter

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

    Revolution's Daughter
  • 1972
    El Diálogo de América

    El Diálogo de América (1972)

    El Diálogo de América

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

    El Diálogo de América
  • 2012
    The Man Who Saved the World

    The Man Who Saved the World (2012)

    The Man Who Saved the World

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    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....

    The Man Who Saved the World
  • 2017
    Elián

    Elián (2017)

    Elián

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    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 recoun...

    Elián