Santiago Álvarez Movies

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,...

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

Alvarez' longest documentary examination of the Cuban Revolution, this contains exceptional interviews with Fidel, Raúl, Almeida, Vilma,...

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

Produced by ICAIC in the wake of the Bay of Pigs invasion, "Muerte al invasor" chronicles the three days of fighting at Playa Girón,...

Portrait of the Angolan people.

With a speech by Fidel Castro as the central theme, the effects of the terrorist attacks against the interests of the Cubana de Aviacion company are...

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

Documentary film on the end of the Vietnam War, the fall of Saigon and the departure of American troops, as well as a tracing of 4000 years of...

The short film El primer delegado (The First Delegate), made by a group of ICAIC directors, recounts the moments in which José Martí...

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

Documentary in four parts on Latin American cinema. Fourth episode: in Cuba, the ICAIC, created in the aftermath of the Castro revolution, is at once...

News report on the seven years of the Cuban Revolution.

Documentary about the earthquake that devastated the Yungai area on May 31, 1970, which killed more than 40,000 Peruvians.

An ordinary man goes to work in a rich household of Peru and has a dream in which he sees his boss and himself appearing as equal in front of the...

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

Short documentary recounting the history of the Santiago de Cuba carnival.

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