Fidel Castro
Acting
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.
Germán Araújo
Himself (archival footage)
JFK Assassination: A New Perspective
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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
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Suite Tortilla #59: The Celluloid Women
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The Queen and the Prime Ministers
Sig selv (arkiv)
The Padilla Affair
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Andança: Os Encontros e as Memórias de Beth Carvalho
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Rat Pack
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Becoming Cousteau
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A History of an Assignment
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Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
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537 Votes
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Wasp Network
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Laboratory Greece
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Amérique latine, l'année de tous les dangers
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ReMastered: Massacre at the Stadium
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Chop Chop Chang: Operation C.H.I.M.P
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Cuba, un aller et un retour
Himself (archive footage)
Another Day of Life
Himself (archive footage)
Chavismo: The Plague of the 21st Century
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Karl Marx und seine Erben
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Che Guevara, naissance d'un mythe
Cuba and the Cameraman
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El Che
Self (archive footage)
Two Meetings and a Funeral
Angola: The War
Himself - President of Cuba (archive footage)
Elián
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Nobody
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Historien ska frikänna mig
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Franco and Fidel: A Strange Friendship
Himself
Fidel Castro: America's Nemesis
Himself (Archive Footage)
Assassinating Franco
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Castro: The World's Most Watched Man
Himself (archive footage)
Celia - la más hermosa flor
Laissez-faire
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Lee Harvey Oswald: 48 Hours to Live
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Cuba, Batista et la mafia
Fidel Castro
The Man Who Saved the World
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The Day That Lasted 21 Years
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Palme
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The Mayor
7 Days in Havana
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Castro in Winter
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Ethel
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Memories of Overdevelopment
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Santiago Files
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El día más largo
Memória Cubana
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CUBA: Defending Socialism, Resisting Imperialism
Himself
Being Fidel Castro
Himself (archive footage)
The Inconclusive Independence
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Did the Mob Kill JFK?
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South of the Border
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Året var 1958
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RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy
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Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn
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Oswald's Ghost
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The War on Democracy
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Lejos de la isla
Himself (archive footage)
Un Giorno con Fidel
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Cuba, el valor de una utopía
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638 Ways to Kill Castro
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Looking for Fidel
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I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth
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Kordavision: The man who shot Che Guevara
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
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Salvador Allende
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Fidel Castro: Life for the Revolution
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Looking for Fidel
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el moro
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Jack Paar: Smart Television
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Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers
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The Fog of War
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Comandante
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Che Guevara - Hasta La Victoria Siempre
Naqoyqatsi
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Cuban Rafters
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Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
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The Cuban Game
Himself (footage)
Dear Fidel: Marita's Story
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Kubánske otázniky
archívne zábery
The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files
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Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2
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Ernesto Che Guevara - Uomo, Compagno, Amico
8A
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The JFK Conspiracy
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JFK
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Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America
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Portrait of Castro's Cuba
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Hồ Chí Minh - Portrait of A Man
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Cuba 30 Anni Dopo
Himself
American Expose: Who Murdered JFK?
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The Uncompromising Revolution
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Brascuba
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The CIA's War Against Cuba
Fidel Racconta il Che
Himself
Chile: A Genral Record
Cuba: In the Shadow of Doubt
Improper Conduct
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
Self (archive footage)
James Bond: The First 21 Years
Self (archive footage)
Che, Today and Always
Fidel Castro
On Company Business
Self - Prime Minister of Cuba (archive footage)
A propósito de nuestra historia
Archive
The Necessary War
Himself
Mission Mind Control
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A Grin Without a Cat
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The CIA's Secret Army
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My Brother, Fidel
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Waiting for Fidel
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General Idi Amin Dada
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Society of the Spectacle
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Cuba and Fidel
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Venceremos, solidaridad
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Chile, el gran desafío
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And Heaven Was Taken by Storm
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The Exploitation of Man by Man
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Compromiso con Chile
The First Year
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El Diálogo de América
Él mismo
I Am a Son of America
Él mismo
Fidel
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Cuba: Battle of the 10,000,000
Report on Brazil: Carlos Marighella
Himself (archive footage)
Topaz
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The Hour of the Furnaces
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World in Action: End of a Revolution
Far from Vietnam
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Hello Cubans
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Muerte al invasor
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¡Cuba Sí!
Self - Cuban Politician (uncredited)
Island Ablazed
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ABC Close-Up: Yanki, No!
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General Assembly
Fidel Castro
Cuban Rebel Girls
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