Santiago Álvarez Movies

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...

Produced by ICAIC in the wake of the Bay of Pigs invasion, "Muerte al invasor" chronicles the three days of fighting at Playa Girón,...

Documentary short about the death of Chilean general René Schneider by the CIA, following the election of Salvador Allende as president of the...

In December 1967, a Cuban film crew led by Santiago Alvarez, the veteran polemicist, travelled to Hanoi. They shot the footage which constitutes this...

Santiago Álvarez and his team are talking with Salvador Allende (alongside his daughter Beatriz), who has just been elected President of the...

Alvarez' longest documentary examination of the Cuban Revolution, this contains exceptional interviews with Fidel, Raúl, Almeida, Vilma,...

An obituary for Victor Jara, the Chilean folksinger who was murdered in a football stadium by the military junta during the days of the September...

A chronicle of Fidel Castro's two-month tour of ten East European and African nations in mid-1972.

Political propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War.

Short documentary on the solidarity of the Cuban people with Vietnam during the war against the United States.

A report on the visit to Cuba by Valentina Tereškova, the first woman to fly in space and the first Soviet cosmonaut. As the (unidentified)...

News report on the seven years of the Cuban Revolution.

Short documentary recounting the history of the Santiago de Cuba carnival.

Political satire on the defeat suffered by the North American and Saigon forces in the south of Laos in February 1971.

Documentary about the relationship between filmmaker Glauber Rocha and Cuba.

Recollections of Fidel Castro's visit to Chile on November, 1971, and of the historical imperialist exploitation of Latin America.

A tribute to Santiago Álvarez, a great innovator in the language of Cuban newsreel images, presented by the ICAIC over the course of thirty...

Documentary film on the end of the Vietnam War, the fall of Saigon and the departure of American troops, as well as a tracing of 4000 years of...