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Documentary about Fidel Castro, covering 40 years of Cuban Revolution. Rare Fidel Castro footage: he appears swimming with a bodyguard...
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Sean Penn -- Sometimes a Cigar...
(From TMZ. 25 October 2009, 10:41 AM, PDT)
Fidel: Raul's Overture Was 'Misinterpreted'
(From newser. 22 April 2009, 5:10 AM, PDT)
(From TMZ. 25 October 2009, 10:41 AM, PDT)
Fidel: Raul's Overture Was 'Misinterpreted'
(From newser. 22 April 2009, 5:10 AM, PDT)
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A Docmentary not only on the Eyes of the Beholder
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(Credited cast) | Fidel Castro | ... | Himself |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
 | Muhammad Ali | ... | Himself |
 | Harry Belafonte | ... | Himself |
| Angela Davis | ... | Herself |
| Elián González | ... | Himself |
| Nelson Mandela | ... | Himself |
 | Ted Turner | ... | Himself |
 | Vlasta Vrana | ... | Narrator (voice) |
| Alice Walker | ... | Herself |
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Fidel: The Untold Story (USA) (DVD title)
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Not everyone's piece of cake, paradoxically,teaches much about the US's own propaganda efforts, by depicting Cuba's attempt at countering it with its own pro-Fidel twist.
Not a movie that will be taken lightly by Cuban exiles, but good documentary sequences by themselves make it worthwhile. And some previously undisclosed information on the USA-Soviet Union accord which lead to the 1963 missile disarmament in Cuba in exchange for the US withdrawal of its Turkey stationed missiles and agreement not to invade Cuba.
Of course, this accord did not cover the numerous attempts at Fidel's assassination by the CIA, as well as the US execution of Chile's democratically elected President Allende, facts now overtly displayed in the CIA's Washington DC museum.
Makes one wonder. There is no Universal good country or bad country. Even visions of the conflicts between cowboys and Indians were much tainted by shining badges under broad white hats imposing justice at a rope's end to the original American savages. Politically incorrect term Natives seems to be much in vogue, deep roots of prejudice, notwithstanding.