Santiago Álvarez Movies

This film confronts the failures of the Cuban economy, although it is made in a Guevara-like spirit of moral exhortation rather than criticism.

CICLÓN is a coverage of hurricane Flora's sweeping the Cuban provinces of Camagüey and Oriente in October 1963: the damage, the...

Documentary reflecting upon the life and legacy of Ernesto "Che" Guevara.

Focuses on the history of foreign intervention in Laos, first by France and then by the United States. It shows how the liberation forces of Laos,...

Short documentary on the solidarity of the Cuban people with Vietnam during the war against the United States.

In December 1967, a Cuban film crew led by Santiago Alvarez, the veteran polemicist, travelled to Hanoi. They shot the footage which constitutes this...

News report on the seven years of the Cuban Revolution.

A chronicle of Fidel Castro's two-month tour of ten East European and African nations in mid-1972.

Documentary short about the death of Chilean general René Schneider by the CIA, following the election of Salvador Allende as president of the...

A report on the visit to Cuba by Valentina Tereškova, the first woman to fly in space and the first Soviet cosmonaut. As the (unidentified)...

A tribute to Santiago Álvarez, a great innovator in the language of Cuban newsreel images, presented by the ICAIC over the course of thirty...

Documentary about the relationship between filmmaker Glauber Rocha and Cuba.

Santiago Álvarez and his team are talking with Salvador Allende (alongside his daughter Beatriz), who has just been elected President of the...

Political propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War.

A portrait of the great radical Cuban film maker Santiago Alvarez.

An obituary for Victor Jara, the Chilean folksinger who was murdered in a football stadium by the military junta during the days of the September...

Political satire on the defeat suffered by the North American and Saigon forces in the south of Laos in February 1971.

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