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Three Faces of Cuba (1966 Film)

Director

Robert Cohen

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Examines the impact of the Castro revolution on the people of Cuba from three different viewpoints: that of an exiled university professor whose family is still in Havana, a factory personnel manager who was...

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With Our Memory on the Future (2006)

Subject

Social Studies; Women’s studies

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 63 minutes), £13.00

This documentary was produced by the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) on the 45th anniversary of its founding. The film examines the progress that Cuban women have made since 1959. Through interviews on the...

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Cuba Si! (4 Parts) (1962 Film)

Director

James Hill

Producer

Tim Hewat

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Part 4: A study of Fidel Castro, his relations with the Communist bloc, and the possible effects on Latin America of the revolution as viewed at the time.

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Compay Segundo

Subject

HISTORY & POLITICS CATALOGUES; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 min), £17.99

Compay Segunda was filmed, in his nineties, singing his Cuban songs as he has done in Havana since the 1920s. His songs tell of promises of a brave new world following the revolution and life in Cuba before...

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Power of Community, The: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006)

Director

Faith Morgan

Subject

Agriculture; Economics; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 53 minutes), $20.00

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba’s economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half - and food by 80 percent - people were desperate. This film tells of the hardships...

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I Am Cuba (Soy Cuba) / Siberian Mammoth (2007)

aka: Soy Cuba

Director

Mikhail Kalatozov; Vicente Farraz

Subject

Film studies; Politics & government; Spanish studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 230 minutes), £8.99

A 2-disc set. Disc 1 : I AM CUBA, partially written by renowned poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, captures the island just before it made the transition to a post-revolutionary society. Moving from city to country...

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Cuba, An African Odyssey (2008)

aka: Cuba, Une Odyssee Africaine

Director

Jihan El-Tahri

Subject

Development studies; History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 190 minutes), £24.99

Using archive footage and personal accounts, this film tells the story of the Cold War through the prism of its least known theatre: Africa. From 1961 to 1991, this continent was the battleground for a war...

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Che Guevara As You Have Never Seen Him Before (2007)

Director

Manuel Parades

Subject

Politics & government; Spanish studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £14.99

October 9th 1967. La Higuera, Bolivia. Shots ring out and a man dies. A man, but not the ideals and principles he stood for. The execution ensured that Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna became, and remains,...

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Yuli: The Carlos Acosta Story (2018)

Director

Iciar Bollain

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 115 minutes)

Yuli is based on Acosta’s autobiography ‘No Way Home, A Cuban Dancer’s Story’. It is his own story about growing up in Cuba, becoming a dancer, moving to London and his relationship with his father,...

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Cuban Missile Crisis, The (1992 Video)

Producer

Jeremy Bennett

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 2 x 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) pair

Broadcast on BBC2 from 7/10/92.

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