Santiago Álvarez

A conversation between Fidel Castro and Salustiano Leyva, who when he was 11 years old met heroes from Cuba's war of independence.

During the government of Salvador Allende, Santiago Alvarez was in Chile twice, the first following Fidel Castro during his visit to the Andean country 25 days in 1971. This film is the record of public acts of the agent for Cuban Notiaciário ICAIC, expanded to a historical view of imperialist exploitation in Latin America.

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

A poetic film tribute to the Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh, the 79 Springs of the title referring to Ho's age at his death. The Spanish inter-titles are translated in the metadata.

This is a montage of different images from the JFK, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy triumphs and assassinations, all three events being observed by Lyndon Johnson as the dark figure who is plotting the anti-black rights movement.

Filmed in Hanoi on December 13, 1966, this documentary records the lives of people in the Vietnam capital and surrounding countryside at the height of U.S. bombing. Their daily activities are presented in a collage of images: building irrigation ditches, planting rice , fishing, weaving...life continued despite the shower of U.S. bombs. During these air raids, the people formed armed self-defense units so efficient that the life of the nation was not interrupted. (YouTube)

"Hasta La Victoria Siempre" (1967) is twenty minutes of music, pictures and stock footage focusing on Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and other revolutions and revolutionaries.

Using a Lena Horne song that was banned in the United States, Alvarez constructs a powerful montage on racial discrimination in the USA;. The film is impressive not only for the resourcefulness with which it uses its found materials, including pirated newsreels, but also for the syncopation of the editing, which intensifies the insistence of the song itself (Cinema Texas)