Santiago Álvarez Movies

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)...

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

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

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...

A famous composer creative in crisis and must compose a new album, but is going through a painful separation that prevents him from concentrating. In...

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

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.

Through the files of Cuban cinema news program Noticieros ICAIC Latinoamericanos, the documentary shows the most relevant events of the second half...

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

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

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

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

Documentary about the relationship between filmmaker Glauber Rocha and Cuba.

In September 1968, Fidel Castro comments on the suppression of the Prague Spring in surprisingly critical terms. He opens his thunderous speech with...