Fidel Castro

Q: Did Fidel Castro win any awards?

Fidel Castro received numerous accolades during his life, including honorary doctorates and awards from various countries for his contributions to revolutionary movements and education.

Q: What was Fidel Castro's first major political role?

Fidel Castro's first major political role was as the Prime Minister of Cuba, a position he held from 1959 until 1976, following the success of the Cuban Revolution.

Q: What are some of Fidel Castro's most notable speeches?

Some of Fidel Castro's most notable speeches include his speech at the United Nations in 1960 and his lengthy addresses at various political rallies, which often focused on anti-imperialist themes and social justice.

Q: What was Fidel Castro's personal life like?

Fidel Castro was married twice and had nine children. He was known for his privacy regarding personal matters, although he often spoke about his family in public.

Q: What was Fidel Castro's estimated net worth?

Fidel Castro's estimated net worth was around 900 million USD, attributed to his extensive properties and investments in various industries in Cuba.

Q: What are some milestones in Fidel Castro's filmography?

Fidel Castro's filmography includes appearances in documentaries like 'How to Become a Tyrant', which explores his life and influence as a leader, showcasing his ideological perspectives.

Q: How did Fidel Castro influence global politics?

Fidel Castro significantly influenced global politics through his alignment with the Soviet Union during the Cold War and his support for various revolutionary movements in Latin America and beyond.

Known for

Cuba and the Cameraman (2017)

IMDb 8.2 / 10

2017 / Documentary / 114mins

This revealing portrait of Cuba follows the lives of Fidel Castro and three Cuban families affected by his policies over the last four decades.

JFK (1991)

IMDb 8.0 / 10

1991 / Drama, History / 189 min

Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.

Name

Fidel Castro

Height

5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)

Born

13 August 1926, Birán, Oriente Province, Cuba

Spouses

Dalia Soto del Valle (1980–2016)

Children

9 children (including Aleida, Antonio, and Alexis)

Parents

Angel Castro y Argiz, Lina Ruz González

Estimated Net Worth

900 million USD

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	Movie Nostalgia for the Future Guided by the evocative narration of Charlotte Rampling, Nostalgia for the Future is a descent into the labyrinthine world of...	Self (Archive Footage)	Not rated
2026	Movie Revolution's Daughter A deep dive into the lives and experiences of those impacted by the Fidel Castro era in Cuba.	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
2025	Movie Germán Araújo In Germán Araujo, director Aldo Novick revives the memory of a journalist who defied censorship during one of Uruguay's darkest...	Himself (archival footage)	Not rated
2025	Movie JFK Assassination: A New Perspective With the release of new documents in 2025, this gripping exploration revisits the JFK assassination, featuring expert insights and theories...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2024	Movie Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest episodes of the Cold War.	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2024	TV História do Comunismo	Self	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2024	Movie Suite Tortilla #59: The Celluloid Women An American lesbian in Cuba explores gender through dance and film, blending personal experiences and cultural symbols with music and...	Self (Voice)	Not rated
2024	Movie Mário Are even the best and brightest revolutionary movements doomed to inevitable compromise, betrayal and failure? That question haunts this documentary,...	Unknown character	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2024	Movie The Queen and the Prime Ministers Danish documentary about the relationship between Queen Magrethe II and the prime ministers.	Sig selv (arkiv)	Not rated
2023	Movie The Padilla Affair Havana, spring 1971: The poet Heberto Padilla has just been set free and appears before the Cuban Writers' Union where...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2022	TV The Century of Icons	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2022	Movie Andança: Os Encontros e as Memórias de Beth Carvalho A documentary on the career of Beth Carvalho, the Brazilian singer who became a well known samba legend from the...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 8.4 / 10
2022	Movie Rat Pack In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Frank Sinatra, Dean...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2021	Movie Becoming Cousteau Adventurer, filmmaker, inventor, author, unlikely celebrity and conservationist: For over four decades, Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his explorations under the ocean...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2021	Movie A History of an Assignment 1962 year. Cuban Missile Crisis. The world is on the brink of nuclear disaster. Khrushchev has no leverage over the...	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
2021	TV How to Become a Tyrant The documentary series explores different political figures throughout history.	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2021	Movie Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture,...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2021	TV Spycraft The spy game is a serious business, and throughout history, the tools and technologies developed for it have mattered as...	Self	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2020	Movie 537 Votes Documentary chronicling the political machinations that led to the unprecedented, contested outcome of the 2000 presidential election, including the chaotic...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2020	Movie Wasp Network Havana, Cuba, 1990. René González, an airplane pilot, unexpectedly flees the country, leaving behind his wife Olga and his daughter...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2019	Movie Laboratory Greece A journey through Greece and Europe’s past and recent history: from the Second World War to the current crisis. It...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2019	TV Castro's Revolution vs. The World Cuba's revolutionary story is one of much fervor. Fidel Castro had one objective: the liberation of a Communist Cuba. Castro's...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2019	Movie Amérique latine, l'année de tous les dangers	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
2019	Movie ReMastered: Massacre at the Stadium For years, the murder of Chilean protest singer Victor Jara was blamed on an official in Pinochet's army. Now in...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2019	Movie Chop Chop Chang: Operation C.H.I.M.P The incredible story of Chop Chop Chang, a world famous circus chimpanzee who is secretly trained by the CIA into...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2018	Movie Cuba, un aller et un retour According to the official Cuban version, Fidel Castro died on his bed on November 25, 2016. Sixty years after his...	Himself (archive footage)	Not rated
2018	Movie Another Day of Life In 1975, Ryszard Kapuściński, a veteran Polish journalist, embarked on a seemingly suicidal road trip into the heart of the...	Himself (archive footage)	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2018	TV Minnesota Experience For decades, Twin Cities PBS (TPT) has dived into the whitewater of bygone eras and emerged with insight about our...	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
2018	Movie Chavismo: The Plague of the 21st Century An analysis of the causes, social, political, and economic that caused the rise of Hugo Chávez as president of Venezuela;...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2018	TV Explained This documentary series, made in partnership with Vox, explain some of the world's current trends, from politics, to science to...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2018	Movie Karl Marx und seine Erben Over the past hundred years, dramatic social upheavals have taken place in the name of Karl Marx's theories. In Western...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2018	TV Bobby Kennedy for President Historic footage and leading voices of the era examine the "Bobby Phenomenon" of the 1960s and the legacy of the...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2017	Movie Che Guevara, naissance d'un mythe	Unknown character	Not rated
2017	Movie Cuba and the Cameraman This revealing portrait of Cuba follows the lives of Fidel Castro and three Cuban families affected by his policies over...	Self	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2017	Movie El Che Ernesto "Che" Guevara's controversial story told by the Mexican writer Paco Ignacio Taibo II. He revisits places where the guerrilla...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2017	Movie Two Meetings and a Funeral Two Meetings and a Funeral explores Bangladesh’s historical pivot from the socialism of the 1973 Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting in...	Unknown character	Not rated
2017	Movie Angola: The War For twenty-three years, five western nations, members of the Soviet bloc and two superpowers were locked into a war never...	Himself - President of Cuba (archive footage)	Not rated
2017	TV Код доступа	Self	Not rated
2017	Movie Elián The story of Elián Gonzalez, a five-year-old Cuban boy plucked from the Florida Straits, and how the fight for his...	himself	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2017	Movie Nobody Half blind and half deaf, ostraziced Cuban writer Rafael Alcides tries to finish his unpublished novels to discover that after...	Himself	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2016	Movie Historien ska frikänna mig	Self	Not rated
2016	Movie Franco and Fidel: A Strange Friendship The Spanish dictator Francisco Franco was a rabid anti-Communist and a staunch ally of the United States. But that did...	Himself	Not rated
2016	Movie Fidel Castro: America's Nemesis Fidel Castro, the former President of Cuba and one of the most controversial figures of the 20th century, passed away...	Himself (Archive Footage)	Not rated
2016	Movie Assassinating Franco Documentary about the attempts to assassinate Franco	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2016	TV Legends of Cinema	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
2016	Movie Algiers, the Mecca of Revolutionaries (1962-1974) From the early 1960s to the mid-1970s, independent Algeria provided significant support to anti-colonial movements and revolutionaries worldwide. Successive presidents,...	Self	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2015	Movie American Comandante When he was executed outside a Havana prison on March 11, 1961, the strange story of William Morgan seemed to...	Self (archival footage)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2015	Movie Castro: The World's Most Watched Man Fidel Castro employed a vast spy network that helped him remain in power.	Himself (archive footage)	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2015	Movie Celia - la más hermosa flor Celia Sánchez Manduley (1920 - 1980) was a Cuban revolutionary, politician, researcher and archivist. She was a very close friend...	Unknown character	Not rated
2015	TV Guerilleros Exclusive testimonies of the actions taken by Chilean guerilla organization FPMR. The stories about the memebers killed in the confrontations...	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
2015	Movie Laissez-faire A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so profoundly influences the choices of our...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2013	Movie Lee Harvey Oswald: 48 Hours to Live This special seeks to explain the enigmatic Oswald using a brand new approach. No other documentary has exclusively traced Oswald's...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2012	Movie Cuba, Batista et la mafia	Fidel Castro	Not rated
2012	Movie The Man Who Saved the World During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, Soviet Navy officer Vasily Arkhipov refused to launch a nuclear strike and saved...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2012	Movie The Day That Lasted 21 Years Stunning espionage documentary on the US conspiracy that led to the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état. John F. Kennedy and Lyndon...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2012	Movie Palme Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was openly shot to death on a February evening 1986 on the streets of Stockholm....	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2012	Movie The Mayor The film tells the story of Mauricio Fernandez, mayor of the wealthiest municipality in Latin America, located in the North...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2012	Movie 7 Days in Havana A lesbian, an aspiring actor, an aspiring singer, a low-class marriage, a neighborhood community and 2 renowned directors have memorable...	Self (segment "Diary of a Beginner") (archive footage)	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2012	Movie Castro in Winter After directing two documentaries on Fidel Castro in 2002 ("Comandante") and 2003 ("Looking for Fidel"), filmmaker Oliver Stone returned to...	Self	TMDB 4.4 / 10
2012	Movie Ethel Filmmaker Rory Kennedy interviews her mother, Ethel Kennedy, who discusses family, marriage and politics.	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2011	Movie Memories of Overdevelopment An intellectual leaves the Cuban revolution and 'underdevelopment' behind only to find himself at odds with the ambiguities of his...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2011	TV Mentiras verdaderas Daily interviews discussing the guest's personal lives and national contingency.	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2011	Movie Santiago Files President Salvador Allende's topple from Chile's unstable government and the CIA's involvement in the September Coup that would turn the...	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
2011	Movie El día más largo	Unknown character	Not rated
2010	Movie Memória Cubana Through the files of Cuban cinema news program Noticieros ICAIC Latinoamericanos, the documentary shows the most relevant events of the...	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
2010	TV La Case du siècle A French current affairs show.	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2010	Movie CUBA: Defending Socialism, Resisting Imperialism Cuba: Defending Socialism, Resisting Imperialism brings you voices from Cuba, a country fighting for social and economic justice, representing the...	Himself	Not rated
2010	Movie Being Fidel Castro Through the voice of an impersonator, the cuban hero will recount with us his political career. This tender, caustic yet...	Himself (archive footage)	Not rated
2010	Movie The Inconclusive Independence Documentary about the independence and history of Latin America.	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2009	Movie Did the Mob Kill JFK? Did the Mafia order the killing of JFK? The compelling evidence includes a never before seen interview with an FBI...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2009	Movie South of the Border A road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media's misperception...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2009	TV The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien is an American television talk show broadcast by NBC. The show is the fifth...	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2008	Movie Året var 1958 1958 - the year when Ingvar Kamprad opened the doors to his first Ikea department store in Älmhult. The World...	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
2007	Movie RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy A new investigative documentary exploring the controversies surrounding the assassination of Bobby Kennedy on June 5, 1968 as he looked...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2007	Movie Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adventures, loves and excess was...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2007	Movie Oswald's Ghost The assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963 left a psychic wound on America that...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2007	Movie The War on Democracy Set both in Latin America and the United States, the film explores the historic and current relationship of Washington with...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2007	Movie Lejos de la isla Prior to Fidel Castro's reign, Cuba was open to immigration. However, once Castro proclaimed himself dictator of Cuba, one of...	Himself (archive footage)	Not rated
2007	Movie Un Giorno con Fidel	Himself	Not rated
2006	Movie Cuba, el valor de una utopía Eyewitnesses, including Castro himself, look back on the period of resistance and the toppling of Batista's dictatorship. By zooming in...	Himself	Not rated
2006	Movie 638 Ways to Kill Castro Dollan Cannell's documentary on the hundreds of alleged plots to assassinate Fidel Castro, and a look at the evolution of...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2006	Movie Looking for Fidel A man living in the USA is nauseated by the media power and Consumerism, decides to go to Cuba with...	Himself	Not rated
2005	Movie I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth Contemporary film critics regard the epic film I Am Cuba as a modern masterpiece. The 1964 Cuban/Soviet coproduction marked a...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2005	Movie Kordavision: The man who shot Che Guevara Alberto Díaz Korda delivered intense photography experiences throughout his 40-year career. KordaVision traces this brilliant career from his beginning in...	Unknown character	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2005	Movie The Adventures of Errol Flynn A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family.	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2004	Movie Salvador Allende A leftist revolutionary or a reformist democrat? A committed Marxist or a constitutionalist politician? An ethical and moral man or,...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2004	Movie Fidel Castro: Life for the Revolution Castro has outlived generations of US Presidents, Soviet General Secretaries, CIA Directors and would-be assassins. This film offers a psychological...	Self	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2004	Movie Looking for Fidel Oliver Stone's second documentary on/interview with Fidel Castro specifically addresses his country's recent crackdown on Cuban dissidents; namely, the execution...	Self	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2004	Movie el moro A short film puzzling together Fidel Castro, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Star Trek.	Self	Not rated
2003	Movie Jack Paar: Smart Television PBS documentary examining the work of Jack Paar.	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2003	Movie Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers Swedish documentary film on consumerism and globalization, created by director Erik Gandini and editor Johan Söderberg. It looks at the...	Self	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2003	Movie The Fog of War Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his...	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2003	Movie Comandante Oliver Stone spends three days filming with Fidel Castro in Cuba, discussing an array of subjects with the president such...	Self	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2003	Movie Che Guevara - Hasta La Victoria Siempre	Unknown character	Not rated
2002	Movie Naqoyqatsi A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2002	Movie Balseros In the summer of 1994, a team of public television reporters filmed and interviewed seven Cubans a few days before...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2002	Movie Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film illustrates how directors pushed boundaries and altered the art of filmmaking during the turbulent, swinging 1960s. Narrated by Woody Harrelson,...	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2001	Movie The Cuban Game A documentary depicting Cuba/US relations through baseball.	Himself (footage)	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2001	Movie Dear Fidel: Marita's Story Marita Lorenz, the daughter of a German sea captain, recalls how she became the mistress of Fidel Castro in Havana...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2000	Movie Kubánske otázniky	archívne zábery	Not rated
1999	TV Faith of the Century: A History of Communism Communism spread to all of the continents of the word, lasting through four generations and over seven decades. Hundreds of...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 8.5 / 10
1999	Movie The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files On Nov. 22, 1963 the world was shocked by the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The mystery surrounding this history-changing...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 4.9 / 10
1997	TV Rogues Gallery Fascinating biographies featuring the lives and personalities of some of the most notorious mobsters: Al Capone, Bugsy Siegel, John Dillinger,...	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
1996	Movie Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2 Historic Russian battles to repel invaders serve as prelude to the story of events that redrew the map of Eastern...	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
1995	Movie Ernesto Che Guevara - Uomo, Compagno, Amico	Unknown character	Not rated
1995	Movie El último panfleto Experimental film by Liliane Blaser.	Self	Not rated
1993	Movie 8A The Kafkaesque world of Cuba under Castro's rule is brought to light in this reconstruction of the 1989 trial and...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1992	Movie The JFK Conspiracy Up to now, no one knows the truth about the JFK assassination. But now, in a fast-paced two-hours, learn what...	Self	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1991	Movie JFK Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1991	Movie Lest We Forget A compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a...	Self (segment "Pour Esteban González González, Cuba") (archive footage) (uncredited)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1991	Movie Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America Baldwin’s “pseudo-pseudo-documentary” presents a factual chronicle of US intervention in Latin America in the form of the ultimate conspiracy theory,...	Self(archive footage)	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1991	Movie Portrait of Castro's Cuba Host/narrator James Earl Jones explores the island of Cuba, introduces the viewer to the Cuban people and discusses the uncertainty...	Himself	Not rated
1990	Movie Hồ Chí Minh - Portrait of A Man A documentary film promoting the life and career of Ho Chi Minh on the 100th anniversary of his birth (1890-1990)...	Self (archival footage)	Not rated
1990	Movie Cuba 30 Anni Dopo	Himself	Not rated
1988	Movie American Expose: Who Murdered JFK? Investigative reporter Jack Anderson hosts a two-hour investigation of the Kennedy Assassination featuring interviews with experts, eyewitnesses, government officials and...	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
1988	Movie The Uncompromising Revolution Profiles the Cuban Revolution and Fidel Castro at political middle age. The Cuban leader reflects on his life and Cuba...	Self	Not rated
1987	Movie Brascuba	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1987	Movie Parlez-moi du Che Twenty years after Che’s death, in 1987, Pierre Richard and his journalist friend Jean Cormier set out to follow in...	Self	Not rated
1987	Movie The CIA's War Against Cuba "The CIA's War Against Cuba" - a briefing of the past ten years of CIA activities in Cuba, and the...	Unknown character	Not rated
1987	Movie Fidel Racconta il Che	Himself	Not rated
1986	Movie Chile: A Genral Record In 1985, exiled director Miguel Littín secretly reentered Chile to film this sweeping documentary portrait of the country under the...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1986	Movie Cuba: In the Shadow of Doubt An assessment of the first twenty-five years of the Cuban revolution. PBS Special funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting...	Unknown character	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1984	TV Informe especial Investigative news magazine on Chile's social and political contingency.	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 2.0 / 10
1984	Movie Improper Conduct The story of the persecution of homosexuals and intellectuals in Cuba under Fidel Castro's dictatorship, from the beginning of the...	Self - Politician (archive footage)	TMDB 5.1 / 10
1984	Movie Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man The director's reflections on the modern politics of the Reagan administration.	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
1983	Movie James Bond: The First 21 Years A look back at the first 21 years of Britain's most successful film series.	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1983	Movie Che, Today and Always A sound system plays Commander Ernesto Guevara's speech, delivered on October 20, 1962, during the Second Anniversary of the Young...	Fidel Castro	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1980	Movie La marcha del pueblo combatiente	Unknown character	Not rated
1980	Movie On Company Business A controversial three part critical documentary on the history of the CIA.	Self - Prime Minister of Cuba (archive footage)	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1980	Movie The Necessary War Alvarez' longest documentary examination of the Cuban Revolution, this contains exceptional interviews with Fidel, Raúl, Almeida, Vilma, Haydee, Celia and...	Himself	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1980	Movie A propósito de nuestra historia Salvadoran documentary about the revolutionary movement, produced by the Centro de Producciones Audiovisuales de Guazapa.	Archive	Not rated
1979	Movie Mission Mind Control Uncovering government agencies (especially the CIA) that secretly tested the effects of LSD on humans.	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
1977	Movie A Grin Without a Cat Chris Marker’s A Grin Without a Cat is an epic political essay tracing the rise and decline of the global...	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1977	Movie The CIA's Secret Army This program examines Cuban exile terrorists living in Miami. These terrorists were secretly trained and employed by the U.S. government...	Self	Not rated
1977	Movie My Brother, Fidel Follows the Cuban leader into the home of a 93 year old acquaintance of Jose Marti, who is now blind...	Self	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1975	Movie Waiting for Fidel This feature-length documentary from 1974 takes viewers inside Fidel Castro's Cuba. A movie-making threesome hope that Fidel himself will star...	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1974	Movie General Idi Amin Dada Filmmaker Barbet Schroeder shows the Ugandan dictator meeting his Cabinet, reviewing his troops, explaining his ideology.	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1974	Movie The Society of the Spectacle Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1974	Movie Cuba and Fidel The documentary explores the life and political influence of Fidel Castro, leader of the Cuban Revolution. Through interviews and archival...	Self	Not rated
1973	Movie Venceremos, solidaridad Anonymous short documentary released immediately after the Chilean military coup of 1973. It recapitulates the presidency of Salvador Allende which...	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
1973	Movie Chile, el gran desafío After providing a pictorial vision of Chile, from north to south, President Salvador Allende's tour of the following countries is...	Self	Not rated
1973	Movie And Heaven Was Taken by Storm A chronicle of Fidel Castro's two-month tour of ten East European and African nations in mid-1972.	Self	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1972	Movie The Exploitation of Man by Man How long will workers be subjected to exploitation? This is the question posed by this documentary, which explores the employer-worker...	Self	Not rated
1972	Movie Compromiso con Chile Made by Fernando Balmaceda in 1972, it is a documentary that shows the presence of the State Technical University throughout...	Unknown character	Not rated
1972	Movie The First Year The documentary narrates the events that took place during the first year of the Unidad Popular government, in chronological order.	Self	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1972	Movie El Diálogo de América In November 1971, Salvador Allende and Fidel Castro chat to each other about revolution, imperialism, oligarchy, underdevelopment, cultural dependency and...	Él mismo	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1972	Movie I Am a Son of America Recollections of Fidel Castro's visit to Chile on November, 1971, and of the historical imperialist exploitation of Latin America.	Él mismo	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1971	Movie Fidel This film provides a unique view of Cuba's leader, containing fascinating archive footage of the Bay of Pigs invasion and...	Self	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1971	Movie Cuba: Battle of the 10,000,000 Documentary about economic development in Cuba, particularly the effort to boost output of sugar cane. This film is made from...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1970	Movie Report on Brazil: Carlos Marighella Made shortly after the death of Brazilian revolutionary Carlos Marighella, this documentary reconstructs his life and political struggle through interviews...	Himself (archive footage)	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1969	Movie Topaz Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1968	Movie The Hour of the Furnaces An impassioned three-part documentary of the liberation struggle waged throughout Latin America, using Argentina as a historical example of the...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1967	Movie World in Action: End of a Revolution A World in Action documentary filmed in Bolivia immediately after Che Guevara’s death. Directed by Brian Moser, it documents the...	Unknown character	Not rated
1967	Movie Far from Vietnam In seven different parts, Godard, Ivens, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamese army during...	Self (segment "Fidel Castro")	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1963	Movie Hello Cubans A photo montage of Cubans filmed by Agnès Varda during her visit to Cuba in 1963, four years after Fidel...	Self (uncredited)	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1963	TV World in Action World in Action was Granada Television’s flagship ITV current affairs series, running from 7 Jan 1963 to 7 Dec 1998,...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1962	Movie Muerte al invasor Produced by ICAIC in the wake of the Bay of Pigs invasion, "Muerte al invasor" chronicles the three days of...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1961	Movie ¡Cuba Sí! Chris Marker’s documentary traces the course of the Cuban Revolution, from its early optimism to the aftermath of the Bay...	Self - Cuban Politician (uncredited)	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1961	Movie Island Ablazed Documentary recounting the story of the Cuban Revolution and its impact on the young people of Cuba.	Self	Not rated
1960	Movie ABC Close-Up: Yanki, No! A 1960 cinéma vérité documentary on anti-American sentiment in Latin America, combining observational footage from Caracas and political events, directed...	Self	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1960	Movie General Assembly In Asamblea general (1960), the documentary about Fidel's address of the First Declaration of Havana in the Plaza of the...	Fidel Castro	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1959	Movie Cuban Rebel Girls Errol Flynn, playing himself as a war correspondent, reports the dangerous goings-on of a band of Cuban rebels- Two of...	Self (uncredited)	TMDB 2.6 / 10
TBA	Movie Attack on the Americas A 1980 propaganda film on communism in Latin America and support US intervention in Central America	Himself	Not rated
TBA	Movie Fidel Castro no Rio de Janeiro, 1959	Unknown character	Not rated

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Suite Tortilla #59: The Celluloid Women

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Cuba and the Cameraman (2017)

JFK (1991)

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