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  1. Cuba and the Cold War Collection: From Revolution to Missile Crisis (2009)

    Subject
    History

    At the height of the Cold War, on 1 January 1959, a guerrilla army led by Fidel Castro defeated the US-backed Batista government. Attempts by the US government to undermine Castro’s new administration,...

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  2. Chevolution (2009)

    Director
    Luis Lopez; Tricia Ziff
    Subject
    Art; Media studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 86 minutes), £12/99

    In 1960, Cuban photographer Alberto ‘Korda’ Diaz captured a photo of Che Guevara during a mass funeral. History conspired to enable this dynamic portrait to explode on the world scene where it became an...

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  3. 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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  4. 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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