Fidel Castro
Acting • Born 1926-08-13 – Died 2016-11-25
Biography
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and President from 1976 to 2008. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011. Under his administration, Cuba became a one-party communist state; industry and business were nationalized, and state socialist reforms were implemented throughout society. Born in Birán, Oriente, the son of a wealthy Spanish farmer, Castro adopted leftist and anti-imperialist ideas while studying law at the University of Havana. After participating in rebellions against right-wing governments in the Dominican Republic and Colombia, he planned the overthrow of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista, launching a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks in 1953. After a year's imprisonment, Castro traveled to Mexico where he formed a revolutionary group, the 26th of July Movement, with his brother Raúl Castro and Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Returning to Cuba, Castro took a key role in the Cuban Revolution by leading the Movement in a guerrilla war against Batista's forces from the Sierra Maestra. After Batista's overthrow in 1959, Castro assumed military and political power as Cuba's Prime Minister. The United States came to oppose Castro's government and unsuccessfully attempted to remove him by assassination, economic blockade, and counter-revolution, including the Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961. Countering these threats, Castro aligned with the Soviet Union and allowed the Soviets to place nuclear weapons in Cuba, resulting in the Cuban Missile Crisis – a defining incident of the Cold War – in 1962. Adopting a Marxist–Leninist model of development, Castro converted Cuba into a one-party, socialist state under Communist Party rule, the first in the Western Hemisphere. Policies introducing central economic planning and expanding healthcare and education were accompanied by state control of the press and the suppression of internal dissent. Abroad, Castro supported anti-imperialist revolutionary groups, backing the establishment of Marxist governments in Chile, Nicaragua, and Grenada, as well as sending troops to aid allies in the Yom Kippur, Ogaden, and Angolan Civil War. These actions, coupled with Castro's leadership of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1979 to 1983 and Cuba's medical internationalism, increased Cuba's profile on the world stage. Following the Soviet Union's dissolution in 1991, Castro led Cuba through the economic downturn of the "Special Period", embracing environmentalist and anti-globalization ideas. In the 2000s, Castro forged alliances in the Latin American "pink tide" – namely with Hugo Chávez's Venezuela – and formed the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas. In 2006, Castro transferred his responsibilities to Vice President Raúl Castro, who was elected to the presidency by the National Assembly in 2008. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fidel Castro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
154 credits
Karl Marx und seine Erben
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
The Society of the Spectacle
Movie • 1974
Self (archive footage)
Comandante
Movie • 2003
Self
537 Votes
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
Cuban Rafters
Movie • 2002
Self (archive footage)
ABC Close-Up: Yanki, No!
Movie • 1960
Self
Far from Vietnam
Movie • 1967
Self (segment "Fidel Castro")
Looking for Fidel
Movie • 2004
Self
General Idi Amin Dada
Movie • 1974
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Man Who Saved the World
Movie • 2012
Self (archive footage)
CUBA: Defending Socialism, Resisting Imperialism
Movie • 2010
Himself
Historien ska frikänna mig
Movie • 2016
Self
Laissez-faire
Movie • 2015
Self (archive footage)
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
Movie • 1984
Self (archive footage)
The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files
Movie • 1999
Self (archive footage)
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
And Heaven Was Taken by Storm
Movie • 1973
Self
Fidel Castro no Rio de Janeiro, 1959
Movie
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Movie • 2005
Self (archive footage)
¡Cuba Sí!
Movie • 1961
Self - Cuban Politician (uncredited)
The Padilla Affair
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)
Fidel
Movie • 1971
Self
Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2
Movie • 1996
Self (archive footage)
Kubánske otázniky
Movie • 2000
archívne zábery
Compromiso con Chile
Movie • 1972
Chile, el gran desafío
Movie • 1973
Self
Laboratory Greece
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)
Memories of Overdevelopment
Movie • 2011
Self (archive footage)
The Mayor
Movie • 2012
Chile: A Genral Record
Movie • 1986
The CIA's Secret Army
Movie • 1977
Self
JFK
Movie • 1991
Self (archive footage)
Revolution's Daughter
Movie
Self (archive footage)
638 Ways to Kill Castro
Movie • 2006
Self (archive footage)
Cuba: In the Shadow of Doubt
Movie • 1986
Rat Pack
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Franco and Fidel: A Strange Friendship
Movie • 2016
Himself
A History of an Assignment
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
The Fog of War
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth
Movie • 2005
Self (archive footage)
Andança: Os Encontros e as Memórias de Beth Carvalho
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
The Necessary War
Movie • 1980
Himself
8A
Movie • 1993
Self
Memória Cubana
Movie • 2010
Self (archive footage)
The Uncompromising Revolution
Movie • 1988
Self
Cuba and Fidel
Movie • 1974
Self
Hello Cubans
Movie • 1963
Self (uncredited)
Did the Mob Kill JFK?
Movie • 2009
Self (archive footage)
Island Ablazed
Movie • 1961
Self
The Day That Lasted 21 Years
Movie • 2012
Self (archive footage)
My Brother, Fidel
Movie • 1977
Self
Lejos de la isla
Movie • 2007
Himself (archive footage)
Venceremos, solidaridad
Movie • 1973
Self (archive footage)
Waiting for Fidel
Movie • 1975
Self
Becoming Cousteau
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Being Fidel Castro
Movie • 2010
Himself (archive footage)
The Cuban Game
Movie • 2001
Himself (footage)
Castro in Winter
Movie • 2012
Self
Che Guevara - Hasta La Victoria Siempre
Movie • 2003
The Hour of the Furnaces
Movie • 1968
Self (archive footage)
Nobody
Movie • 2017
Himself
Un Giorno con Fidel
Movie • 2007
Himself
Fidel Racconta il Che
Movie • 1987
Himself
Cuba 30 Anni Dopo
Movie • 1990
Himself
Ernesto Che Guevara - Uomo, Compagno, Amico
Movie • 1995
South of the Border
Movie • 2009
Self (archive footage)
Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers
Movie • 2003
Self
El Diálogo de América
Movie • 1972
Él mismo
Looking for Fidel
Movie • 2006
Himself
Two Meetings and a Funeral
Movie • 2017
Fidel Castro: America's Nemesis
Movie • 2016
Himself (Archive Footage)
RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy
Movie • 2007
Self (archive footage)
General Assembly
Movie • 1960
Fidel Castro
Cuba and the Cameraman
Movie • 2017
Self
Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn
Movie • 2007
Self (archive footage)
Celia - la más hermosa flor
Movie • 2015
Chop Chop Chang: Operation C.H.I.M.P
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)
Another Day of Life
Movie • 2018
Himself (archive footage)
Improper Conduct
Movie • 1984
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Angola: The War
Movie • 2017
Himself - President of Cuba (archive footage)
Muerte al invasor
Movie • 1962
Self (archive footage)
Castro: The World's Most Watched Man
Movie • 2015
Himself (archive footage)
Jack Paar: Smart Television
Movie • 2003
Self
Cuba: Battle of the 10,000,000
Movie • 1971
The CIA's War Against Cuba
Movie • 1987
Santiago Files
Movie • 2011
Self (archive footage)
Elián
Movie • 2017
himself
Cuba, un aller et un retour
Movie • 2018
Himself (archive footage)
Cuba, el valor de una utopía
Movie • 2006
Himself
Topaz
Movie • 1969
Self (archive footage)
Wasp Network
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
I Am a Son of America
Movie • 1972
Él mismo
Oswald's Ghost
Movie • 2007
Self (archive footage)
Brascuba
Movie • 1987
Self (archive footage)
Cuban Rebel Girls
Movie • 1959
Self (uncredited)
Ethel
Movie • 2012
Self (archive footage)
Salvador Allende
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
Chavismo: The Plague of the 21st Century
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
Amérique latine, l'année de tous les dangers
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)
Assassinating Franco
Movie • 2016
Self
The War on Democracy
Movie • 2007
Self (archive footage)
On Company Business
Movie • 1980
Self - Prime Minister of Cuba (archive footage)
El Che
Movie • 2017
Self (archive footage)
American Expose: Who Murdered JFK?
Movie • 1988
Self (archive footage)
Dear Fidel: Marita's Story
Movie • 2001
Self (archive footage)
Fidel Castro: Life for the Revolution
Movie • 2004
Self
Naqoyqatsi
Movie • 2002
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
7 Days in Havana
Movie • 2012
Self (segment "Diary of a Beginner") (archive footage)
ReMastered: Massacre at the Stadium
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)
The Inconclusive Independence
Movie • 2010
Self (archive footage)
A Grin Without a Cat
Movie • 1977
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Portrait of Castro's Cuba
Movie • 1991
Himself
Mission Mind Control
Movie • 1979
Self (archive footage)
The Exploitation of Man by Man
Movie • 1972
Self
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
Året var 1958
Movie • 2008
Self (archive footage)
El día más largo
Movie • 2011
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
Movie • 2002
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Palme
Movie • 2012
Self (archive footage)
Lee Harvey Oswald: 48 Hours to Live
Movie • 2013
Self (archive footage)
The First Year
Movie • 1972
Self
Che Guevara, naissance d'un mythe
Movie • 2017
James Bond: The First 21 Years
Movie • 1983
Self (archive footage)
JFK Assassination: A New Perspective
Movie • 2025
Self (Archive Footage)
The JFK Conspiracy
Movie • 1992
Self
Report on Brazil: Carlos Marighella
Movie • 1970
Himself (archive footage)
Che, Today and Always
Movie • 1983
Fidel Castro
Kordavision: The man who shot Che Guevara
Movie • 2005
The Queen and the Prime Ministers
Movie • 2024
Sig selv (arkiv)
Hồ Chí Minh - Portrait of A Man
Movie • 1990
Self (archival footage)
Germán Araújo
Movie • 2025
Himself (archival footage)
Cuba, Batista et la mafia
Movie • 2012
Fidel Castro
Attack on the Americas
Movie
Himself
Suite Tortilla #59: The Celluloid Women
Movie • 2024
Self (Voice)
World in Action: End of a Revolution
Movie • 1967
Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America
Movie • 1991
Self(archive footage)
el moro
Movie • 2004
Self
A propósito de nuestra historia
Movie • 1980
Archive
Mentiras verdaderas
TV • 2011
Self (archive footage)
Guerilleros
TV • 2015
Self (archive footage)
Informe especial
TV • 1984
Self (archive footage)
Spycraft
TV • 2021
Self
How to Become a Tyrant
TV • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Faith of the Century: A History of Communism
TV • 1999
Self (archive footage)
Explained
TV • 2018
Self (archive footage)
Bobby Kennedy for President
TV • 2018
Self (archive footage)
The Century of Icons
TV • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Castro's Revolution vs. The World
TV • 2019
La Case du siècle
TV • 2010
Self (archive footage)
Minnesota Experience
TV • 2018
Self (archive footage)
História do Comunismo
TV • 2024
Self
Код доступа
TV • 2017
Self
Легенды кино
TV • 2016
Self (archive footage)
Rogues Gallery
TV • 1997
Self (archive footage)