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Fidel Castro Documentaries 2 DVD Set

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The Life And Times Of Fidel Castro, Cuban Communist Revolutionary And Politician Who Ruled The Republic Of Cuba As Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 And Then As President From 1976 to 2008, Fills 4 Enlightening TV Documentaries And 1 Historic Television Interview, Presented In The Highest DVD Quality MPG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS In An Archival Quality 2 Disc All Regions Format DVD Set!

* October 21, 2024: Updated With THIS CENTURY: DICTATORS: FIDEL CASTRO!


Contents:

BIOGRAPHY (CBS): FIDEL CASTRO (Black/White, 24 Minutes)
Mike Wallace narrates this excellent overview of the life of an outstanding son of privilege who after a life of academic and athletic distinction as one of Cuba's youthful elite rose through the help of United States intelligence services to supreme power in Cuba, then betrayed his American supporters to align himself with the forces of Soviet communism. A documentary completed immediately preceding the infamous Cuban Missile Crisis, which Castro is now known to have deliberately tried to escalate to the level of ultimate nuclear confrontation.

IN CONVERSATION WITH FIDEL CASTRO (Color, 49 Minutes)
CNN Founder Ted Turner conducts this fascinating, frank, cordial, illuminating, surprising and historic 1990 interview of the then leading figure of Latin America's Communist countries by an American captain of industry and then leading figure of American cable news media.

THIS CENTURY: DICTATORS: FIDEL CASTRO (Color, 45 Minutes)
A 1992 installment of TLC's documentary series that critically, efficiently and accurately assesses the remarkable achievements and appalling failures of Fidel Castro leadership and regime.

CUBA: IN THE SHADOW OF DOUBT DVD CUBAN HISTORY WITH RAUL JULIA (Color, 58 Minutes)
Raul Julia narrates this even-handed yet critical investigative history of modern Cuba featuring exclusive interview footage of Fidel Castro and life inside his country.

THE LAST COMMUNIST (Color, 59 Minutes)
A careful and enlightening investigation of the history and legacy of the last remaining communist strongman standing as of the 1992 production date of this excellent installment of the venerable PBS documentary series "Frontline".


Fidel Castro (August 13, 1927 - November 26, 2016) was #born in Biran (at that time part of Mayari), Oriente Province, Cuba. Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Marxist-Leninist and Cuban nationalist who served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011. Under his administration, Cuba became a one-party communist state, while industry and business were nationalized and state socialist reforms were implemented throughout society. The son of a wealthy Spanish farmer, Castro adopted leftist anti-imperialist politics while studying law at the University of Havana. After participating in rebellions against right-wing governments in the Dominican Republic and Colombia, he planned the overthrow of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista, launching a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks in 1953. After a year's imprisonment, Castro traveled to Mexico where he formed a revolutionary group, the 26th of July Movement, with his brother Raul Castro and Che Guevara. Returning to Cuba, Castro took a key role in the Cuban Revolution by leading the Movement in a guerrilla war against Batista's forces from the Sierra Maestra. After Batista's overthrow in 1959, Castro assumed military and political power as Cuba's Prime Minister. The United States came to oppose Castro's government and unsuccessfully attempted to remove him by assassination, economic blockade and counter-revolution, including the Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961. Countering these threats, Castro formed an alliance with the Soviet Union and allowed the Soviets to place nuclear weapons in Cuba, sparking the Cuban Missile Crisis - a defining incident of the Cold War - in 1962. Adopting a Marxist-Leninist model of development, Castro converted Cuba into a one-party, socialist state under Communist Party rule, the first in the Western Hemisphere. Policies introducing central economic planning and expanding healthcare and education were accompanied by state control of the press and the suppression of internal dissent. Abroad, Castro supported anti-imperialist revolutionary groups, backing the establishment of Marxist governments in Chile, Nicaragua and Grenada, as well as sending troops to aid allies in the Yom Kippur, Ogaden, and Angolan Civil War. These actions, coupled with Castro's leadership of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1979 to 1983 and Cuba's medical internationalism, increased Cuba's profile on the world stage. Following the Soviet Union's dissolution in 1991, Castro led Cuba through the economic downturn of the "Special Period", embracing environmentalist and anti-globalization ideas. In the 2000s, Castro forged alliances in the Latin American "pink tide" - namely with Hugo Chavez's Venezuela - and signed Cuba up to the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas. In 2006, Castro transferred his responsibilities to Vice President Raul Castro, who was elected to the presidency by the National Assembly in 2008. The longest-serving non-royal head of state in the 20th and 21st centuries, Castro polarized world opinion. His supporters view him as a champion of socialism and anti-imperialism whose revolutionary regime advanced economic and social justice while securing Cuba's independence from American imperialism. Critics view him as a dictator whose administration oversaw human-rights abuses, the exodus of a large number of Cubans and the impoverishment of the country's economy. Castro was decorated with various international awards and significantly influenced different individuals and groups across the world.

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