Fidel Castro

Acting

Born August 13, 1926 — Died November 25, 2016 Birán, Cuba

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.

TV Shows(18)

História do Comunismo

Self

2024

The Century of Icons

Self (archive footage)

2022

How to Become a Tyrant

Self (archive footage)

2021

Spycraft

Self

2021

Castro's Revolution vs. The World

2019

Minnesota Experience

Self (archive footage)

2018

Explained

Self (archive footage)

2018

Bobby Kennedy for President

Self (archive footage)

2018

Код доступа

Self

2017

Legends of Cinema

Self (archive footage)

2016

Guerilleros

Self (archive footage)

2015

Mentiras verdaderas

Self (archive footage)

2011

La Case du siècle

Self (archive footage)

2010

The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2009

Faith of the Century: A History of Communism

Self (archive footage)

1999

Rogues Gallery

Self (archive footage)

1997

Informe especial

Self (archive footage)

1984

World in Action

1963

Movies(139)

Germán Araújo

Himself (archival footage)

2025

JFK Assassination: A New Perspective

Self (Archive Footage)

2025

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

Self (archive footage)

2024

Suite Tortilla #59: The Celluloid Women

Self (Voice)

2024

The Queen and the Prime Ministers

Sig selv (arkiv)

2024

The Padilla Affair

Self (archive footage)

2023

Andança: Os Encontros e as Memórias de Beth Carvalho

Self (archive footage)

2022

Rat Pack

Self (archive footage)

2022

Becoming Cousteau

Self (archive footage)

2021

A History of an Assignment

Self (archive footage)

2021

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Self (archive footage)

2021

537 Votes

Self (archive footage)

2020

Wasp Network

Self (archive footage)

2020

Laboratory Greece

Self (archive footage)

2019

Amérique latine, l'année de tous les dangers

Self (archive footage)

2019

Chop Chop Chang: Operation C.H.I.M.P

Self (archive footage)

2019

ReMastered: Massacre at the Stadium

Self (archive footage)

2019

Cuba, un aller et un retour

Himself (archive footage)

2018

Another Day of Life

Himself (archive footage)

2018

Chavismo: The Plague of the 21st Century

Self (archive footage)

2018

Karl Marx und seine Erben

Self (archive footage)

2018

Che Guevara, naissance d'un mythe

2017

Cuba and the Cameraman

Self

2017

El Che

Self (archive footage)

2017

Two Meetings and a Funeral

2017

Angola: The War

Himself - President of Cuba (archive footage)

2017

Elián

himself

2017

Nobody

Himself

2017

Historien ska frikänna mig

Self

2016

Franco and Fidel: A Strange Friendship

Himself

2016

Fidel Castro: America's Nemesis

Himself (Archive Footage)

2016

Assassinating Franco

Self

2016

Castro: The World's Most Watched Man

Himself (archive footage)

2015

Celia - la más hermosa flor

2015

Laissez-faire

Self (archive footage)

2015

Lee Harvey Oswald: 48 Hours to Live

Self (archive footage)

2013

Cuba, Batista et la mafia

Fidel Castro

2012

The Man Who Saved the World

Self (archive footage)

2012

The Day That Lasted 21 Years

Self (archive footage)

2012

Palme

Self (archive footage)

2012

The Mayor

2012

7 Days in Havana

Self (segment "Diary of a Beginner") (archive footage)

2012

Castro in Winter

Self

2012

Ethel

Self (archive footage)

2012

Memories of Overdevelopment

Self (archive footage)

2011

Santiago Files

Self (archive footage)

2011

El día más largo

2011

Memória Cubana

Self (archive footage)

2010

CUBA: Defending Socialism, Resisting Imperialism

Himself

2010

Being Fidel Castro

Himself (archive footage)

2010

The Inconclusive Independence

Self (archive footage)

2010

Did the Mob Kill JFK?

Self (archive footage)

2009

South of the Border

Self (archive footage)

2009

Året var 1958

Self (archive footage)

2008

RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

2007

Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn

Self (archive footage)

2007

Oswald's Ghost

Self (archive footage)

2007

The War on Democracy

Self (archive footage)

2007

Lejos de la isla

Himself (archive footage)

2007

Un Giorno con Fidel

Himself

2007

Cuba, el valor de una utopía

Himself

2006

638 Ways to Kill Castro

Self (archive footage)

2006

Looking for Fidel

Himself

2006

I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth

Self (archive footage)

2005

Kordavision: The man who shot Che Guevara

2005

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

Self (archive footage)

2005

Salvador Allende

Self (archive footage)

2004

Fidel Castro: Life for the Revolution

Self

2004

Looking for Fidel

Self

2004

el moro

Self

2004

Jack Paar: Smart Television

Self

2003

Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers

Self

2003

The Fog of War

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2003

Comandante

Self

2003

Che Guevara - Hasta La Victoria Siempre

2003

Naqoyqatsi

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2002

Cuban Rafters

Self (archive footage)

2002

Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2002

The Cuban Game

Himself (footage)

2001

Dear Fidel: Marita's Story

Self (archive footage)

2001

Kubánske otázniky

archívne zábery

2000

The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files

Self (archive footage)

1999

Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2

Self (archive footage)

1996

Ernesto Che Guevara - Uomo, Compagno, Amico

1995

Self

1993

The JFK Conspiracy

Self

1992

JFK

Self (archive footage)

1991

Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America

Self(archive footage)

1991

Portrait of Castro's Cuba

Himself

1991

Hồ Chí Minh - Portrait of A Man

Self (archival footage)

1990

Cuba 30 Anni Dopo

Himself

1990

American Expose: Who Murdered JFK?

Self (archive footage)

1988

The Uncompromising Revolution

Self

1988

Brascuba

Self (archive footage)

1987

Parlez-moi du Che

Self

1987

The CIA's War Against Cuba

1987

Fidel Racconta il Che

Himself

1987

Chile: A Genral Record

1986

Cuba: In the Shadow of Doubt

1986

Improper Conduct

Self - Politician (archive footage)

1984

Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man

Self (archive footage)

1984

James Bond: The First 21 Years

Self (archive footage)

1983

Che, Today and Always

Fidel Castro

1983

On Company Business

Self - Prime Minister of Cuba (archive footage)

1980

The Necessary War

Himself

1980

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