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.

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.

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.