The best Fidel Castro’s documentary movies

Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro

13/08/1926- 25/11/2016
Today we present the best Fidel Castro’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Fidel Castro’s movies.
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Naqoyqatsi

Naqoyqatsi
6.4/10
A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.

Another Day of Life

Another Day of Life
7.3/10
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…

The Fog of War

The Fog of War
8.1/10
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.

Cuba and the Cameraman

Cuba and the Cameraman
8.2/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 08/09/2017
  • Character: Self
This revealing portrait of Cuba follows the lives of Fidel Castro and three Cuban families affected by his policies over the last four decades.

Lasciateci Fare Vol. 1

Lasciateci Fare Vol. 1
8.8/10
In the last 250 years, free-market ideology has played a central role in the development of the logic and rhetoric that have influenced the daily life of populations throughout the Western world. It was cornered for a few decades during the twentieth century in favor of a social economy for the public interest, and then returned to the limelight in the last thirty years of the century to dominate the logics that drive world economies, doing the favor of the elites at the expense of 99%. Through the testimony of six people informed about the facts, Lasciateci Fare Vol. 1 offers a historical and ideological perspective through which to identify the fundamental problems of the economic mechanism on which Western societies are based.

Comandante

Comandante
6.9/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 14/02/2003
  • Character: Himself
Documentary on the director's meeting with Castro.

Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy

Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
6.7/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/01/1992
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
A documentary destined to calmly explain and analyze the facts, myths and rumours about John Kennedy's assassination and the overwhelming use of information in Oliver Stone's epic "JFK" (1991), at the same time it presents a behind the scenes documentary on the controversial film. Features interviews with the cast and director, and the personalities who lived and remember the facts concerning the November 22, 1963, like reporters, eyewitnesses and others, and some of the real characters from the movie, like Jim Garrison, Numa Bertel, Lou Ivon and Perry Russo.

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

The Adventures of Errol Flynn
8/10
A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family.

Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn

Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn
7.3/10
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

A Grin Without a Cat

A Grin Without a Cat
7.9/10
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.

ReMastered: Massacre at the Stadium

ReMastered: Massacre at the Stadium
7.3/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 11/01/2019
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
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.

Jack Paar: Smart Television

Jack Paar: Smart Television
7.4/10
PBS documentary examining the work of Jack Paar.

The Mayor

The Mayor
7.2/10
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.

American Expose: Who Murdered JFK?

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 authors. Includes dramatic recreations of key events.

Ethel

Ethel
7.9/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 20/01/2012
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
Filmmaker Rory Kennedy interviews her mother, Ethel Kennedy, who discusses family, marriage and politics.

Santiago Files

Santiago Files
7/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 23/09/2011
  • Character: Himself (archive footage)
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.

General Idi Amin Dada

General Idi Amin Dada
7.4/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 29/05/1974
  • Character: Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Filmmaker Barbet Schroeder shows the Ugandan dictator meeting his Cabinet, reviewing his troops, explaining his ideology.

Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers

Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers
6.9/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 21/11/2003
  • Character: Himself
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".

Far from Vietnam

Far from Vietnam
7.3/10
  • Genre: DocumentaryWar
  • Release: 01/01/1967
  • Character: Himself (uncredited)
In seven different parts, Godard, Ivens, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War.

South of the Border

South of the Border
7/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 07/09/2009
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
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.

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