Santiago Álvarez Movies
- 1968
LBJ
LBJ5.71968HD
This is a montage of different images from the JFK, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy triumphs and assassinations, all three events being observed...
- 1969
Hanoi, Tuesday 13th
Hanoi, Tuesday 13th6.31969HD
In December 1967 a Cuban film crew led by Santiago Alvarez, the veteran polemicist, traveled to Hanoi. They shot the footage which constitutes this...
- 1965
Now!
Now!6.21965HD
Using morgue photos, newsreel footage, and a recording by Lena Horne, Cuban filmmaker Santiago Alvarez fired off 'Now!', one of the most powerful...
- 1984
Coarse Salt
Coarse Salt51984HD
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...
- 1969
79 Springs
79 Springs6.11969HD
This film memorializes the leader of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, on the occasion of his death. It narrates the story of a life which is also the story of a...
- 1962
Muerte al invasor
Muerte al invasor5.31962HD
Short documentary about Cuba's resistance to American invasion.
- 1971
¿Cómo, por qué y para qué se asesina un general?
¿Cómo, por qué y para qué se asesina un general?51971HD
Documentary short about the death of Chilean general René Schneider by the CIA, following the election of Salvador Allende as president of the...
- 1966
Cerro Pelado
Cerro Pelado5.21966HD
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....
- 1967
Hasta la Victoria Siempre
Hasta la Victoria Siempre71967HD
An obituary of Che Guevara, made in forty-eight hours to be shown at the mass meeting on the 18th October 1967 in the Plaza de la Revolucion in...
- 1964
Cyclone
Cyclone51964HD
CICLÓN is a coverage of hurricane Flora's sweeping the Cuban provinces of Camagüey and Oriente in October 1963: the damage, the...
- 1983
Biografía de un carnaval
Biografía de un carnaval01983HD
- 1973
And Heaven Was Taken by Storm
And Heaven Was Taken by Storm61973HD
A chronicle of Fidel Castro's two-month tour of ten East European and African nations in mid-1972.
- 1977
My Brother, Fidel
My Brother, Fidel5.21977HD
Follows the Cuban leader into the home of a 93 year old acquaintance of Jose Marti, who is now blind and who takes the duration of the film to...
- 1967
The Forgotten War
The Forgotten War51967HD
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,...
- 1970
El camino de Santiago: Periodismo, cine y revolución
El camino de Santiago: Periodismo, cine y revolución7.31970HD
- 1970
The Servant's Dream
The Servant's Dream51970HD
An ordinary man goes to work in a rich household of Peru and has a dream in which he sees his boss and himself appearing as equal in front of the...
- 1937
Towards Unity and Victory
Towards Unity and Victory61937HD
Political propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War.
- 1987
Brascuba
Brascuba01987HD
- 1980
The Necessary War
The Necessary War51980HD
Alvarez' longest documentary examination of the Cuban Revolution, this contains exceptional interviews with Fidel, Raúl, Almeida, Vilma,...
- 1970
Piedra sobre piedra
Piedra sobre piedra01970HD
Documentary about the earthquake that devastated the Yungai area on May 31, 1970, which killed more than 40,000 Peruvians.