Cuba Movies

Having grown up within the Cuban Revolution, in 1980, Juan Carlos Zaldívar was a 13-year-old "pioneer" jeering in the streets at the thousands...

Written and directed by James Orr, the 53-minute video chronicles the entire process of Cuban cigar making, from planting to packaging, offering...

The powerful story of a land preserved in time, yet poised on the cusp of dramatic change. The nation’s vibrant culture, meticulously...

The conflicts of female boxers in Cuba are addressed. The film tells the life stories of members of the women's boxing team, who has to face many...

The young American Pablo Menéndez came to Cuba to study Music at the National School of Art. Here he formed a family and became one more...

A young immigrant looks back at the people, places, music, language, and memories he left behind, trying to find pieces of home in a new country....

In a culture where cremation is unusual, cemeteries fill up rapidly. In Latin America and in some other places, to solve the problem, remains are...

The dramatic untold story of 420,000 Cubans– soldiers and teachers, doctors and nurses– who gave everything to end colonial rule and...

Photographer Joe Guerriero sets out to make sense of the U.S. trade embargo of Cuba. Through conversations with people from all walks of life, in and...

Cuba, 1961: 250,000 volunteers taught 700,000 people to read and write in one year. 100,000 of the teachers were under 18 years old. Over half were...

The fifties in Cuba, at the time of the "dias felices", the happy days, the American mobsters were the kings of the country, Hemingway lived there,...

Thomas Sankara came to power in Burkina Faso in 1983, with the promise of a revolutionary government that would transform the West African country....

The "most cultured country in the world", the result of the "universalization of education", seen as an anthropological horror story. One of the cult...

A look at the history of hip-hop culture in Cuba through the eyes of Rodolfo Rensoli, founder of the Cuban Hip Hop Festival.

The Payret Operation orchestrated in 1979 by State Security against citizen Daniel Faz is hardly known. However, its repercussions continue to this...

Three African women arrive by different routes to Cuba in the nineteenth century, are evangelized and brought to America. For historical moment we...