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,...

A ship of athletes training on the rough seas becomes a symbol of Castro’s Cuba, the games projected on the backdrop of political struggle....

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

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

The New Tango (El Nuevo Tango) was not shown in Argentina for a long time as it deals with the ascent of Argentinean president Hector Campora in May...

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

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

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

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...

Political propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War.

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

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

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

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

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 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...