Cast
Fidel Castro
Acting
Cast
Fidel Castro
Known for
Acting
Born
1926-08-13
From
Birán, Cuba
Died
2016-11-25
Also known as Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
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.
JFK
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Wasp Network
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Topaz
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Naqoyqatsi
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Rat Pack
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Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
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James Bond: The First 21 Years
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The Adventures of Errol Flynn
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Palme
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Balseros
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Becoming Cousteau
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The Fog of War
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537 Votes
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Laissez-faire
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7 Days in Havana
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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
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A Grin Without a Cat
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Cuba and the Cameraman
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Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn
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Far from Vietnam
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South of the Border
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Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
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General Idi Amin Dada
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Another Day of Life
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Laboratory Greece
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Memories of Overdevelopment
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Fidel Castro: America's Nemesis
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Comandante
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Chile: A Genral Record
Nostalgia for the Future
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638 Ways to Kill Castro
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Assassinating Franco
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Salvador Allende
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The Hour of the Furnaces
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Looking for Fidel
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The War on Democracy
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El día más largo
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Hello Cubans
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The Queen and the Prime Ministers
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Franco and Fidel: A Strange Friendship
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Lest We Forget
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Island Ablazed
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Ethel
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Andança: Os Encontros e as Memórias de Beth Carvalho
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Fidel Castro no Rio de Janeiro, 1959
Muerte al invasor
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The Mayor
JFK Assassination: A New Perspective
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Jack Paar: Smart Television
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ReMastered: Massacre at the Stadium
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¡Cuba Sí!
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The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files
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World in Action: End of a Revolution
Santiago Files
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Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers
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The CIA's War Against Cuba
The Inconclusive Independence
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Waiting for Fidel
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Angola: The War
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The Man Who Saved the World
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Elián
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Memória Cubana
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Algiers, the Mecca of Revolutionaries (1962-1974)
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Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
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The First Year
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ABC Close-Up: Yanki, No!
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On Company Business
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Amérique latine, l'année de tous les dangers
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Chop Chop Chang: Operation C.H.I.M.P
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American Expose: Who Murdered JFK?
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I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth
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Karl Marx und seine Erben
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Mission Mind Control
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RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy
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Kordavision: The man who shot Che Guevara
Cuba 30 Anni Dopo
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Chavismo: The Plague of the 21st Century
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The CIA's Secret Army
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Oswald's Ghost
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Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2
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The Padilla Affair
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Nobody
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Castro in Winter
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Report on Brazil: Carlos Marighella
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Being Fidel Castro
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Revolution's Daughter
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El Che
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Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America
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The Day That Lasted 21 Years
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La marcha del pueblo combatiente
Cuban Rebel Girls
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Che Guevara - Hasta La Victoria Siempre
Fidel Castro: Life for the Revolution
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Ernesto Che Guevara - Uomo, Compagno, Amico
Cuba, Batista et la mafia
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Castro: The World's Most Watched Man
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Cuba, el valor de una utopía
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Cuba and Fidel
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Hồ Chí Minh - Portrait of A Man
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Cuba: In the Shadow of Doubt
Lejos de la isla
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Celia - la más hermosa flor
8A
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Improper Conduct
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The Exploitation of Man by Man
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Two Meetings and a Funeral
General Assembly
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Portrait of Castro's Cuba
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My Brother, Fidel
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Lee Harvey Oswald: 48 Hours to Live
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Germán Araújo
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Chile, el gran desafío
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Che Guevara, naissance d'un mythe
Did the Mob Kill JFK?
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CUBA: Defending Socialism, Resisting Imperialism
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Venceremos, solidaridad
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Kubánske otázniky
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Brascuba
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Un Giorno con Fidel
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Historien ska frikänna mig
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Che, Today and Always
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I Am a Son of America
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Compromiso con Chile
The JFK Conspiracy
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Mário
El Diálogo de América
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Cuba: Battle of the 10,000,000
The Cuban Game
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Året var 1958
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Dear Fidel: Marita's Story
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A History of an Assignment
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Attack on the Americas
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Parlez-moi du Che
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Looking for Fidel
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Fidel Racconta il Che
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Fidel
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The Necessary War
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The Uncompromising Revolution
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Suite Tortilla #59: The Celluloid Women
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Cuba, un aller et un retour
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And Heaven Was Taken by Storm
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A propósito de nuestra historia
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el moro
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