Santiago Álvarez Movies

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...

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

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

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

Political propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War.

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

In 1974, the GDR and the Leipzig festival celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution with the “Cuban Documentary Film”...

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

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

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,...

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...

Short film by Santiago Alvarez

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