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Alicia Alonzo: Orbit of a Legend (2010 Video)

Director

José Ramón Neyra

Subject

Dance

Film about the life and career of Alicia Alonso from childhood to her 90th birthday celebration in 2010, interspersed with performance footage and photographs. The extracts from dances include ‘Shakespeare...

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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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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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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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Battle of Chile, The (3 Parts) (1973 Video)

Director

Patricio Guzman

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 320 minutes), $440

A portrait of the passions of a people divided and a nation on the brink of civil war. Patricio Guzman shot the whole of his three-part film with a team of six people constantly on the spot with as many...

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