This video provides a detailed account of Fidel Castro's rise to power in Cuba, from his early political activism to the Cuban Revolution and his subsequent leadership as President. It highlights key events such as the overthrow of...

Operation Pedro Pan saw more than 14,000 children escape Communist Cuba for a new life in the United States. But for many, their troubles were only just starting.

Batista standing wtih other soldiers on street and laughing, smiling during revolution / crowd carrying Batista on shoulders on Havana street. Revolution in Cuba on September 01, 1933 in Havana, Cuba (Footage by Getty Images)

Jorge Batista, son of the former Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, is getting married in San Pedro de Alcantras in Spain.

1. gv crowd outside ch
urch
2. ms groom Jorge Batista climbs steps with mo
ther Marta
3. cu...

Cuba - Fidel Castro appears at the Communist Party Congress

Havana, 19 April
2011
1. Fidel Castro aided by bodyguards entering the congress, delegates
applauding
2. Fidel Castro and president Raul Castro...

1. Pull out from poster of Ernesto "Che" Guevara to crowd waiting

2. Helicopter overhead, pan
crowd
3. Wide of streets filled wi
th people
4. Exterior of G
uevara's house
5. Security guard...

1. Maria Antonia Figueroa, friend of Cuban President Fidel Castro entering living room

2. Figueroa si
tting
3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Maria Antonia Figueroa, friend of Cuban President Fid
el...

/ Fulgencio Batista poses with family outside residence / members of the media look on. Fulgencio Batista poses with family on April 10, 1958 in Cuba (Footage by Getty Images)

Pre-Communist revolution footage in Cuba showing differences between rich and poor / Battista eating cake

Title card: "News Flashes!" / A soldier in a cape looks over a collapsed wall of Fort Atares; a courtyard strewn with fallen masonry and damaged stairs; a stack of rifles, a pair of boots, and a helmet in an open stairway / A shot from...

Title card: "CUBA - First Pictures Batista Seizes Reins" / Pan down of the facade of the Presidential Palace in Havana (later known as the Museum of the Revolution) to two armed men with a machine gun; more armed soldiers on the roof /...

AP Television

Havana, Cuba - 28 March
2013
1. Mid of "Gesta Final" (Final Heroic Deed) game on compu
ter screen
2. Mid of computer programm
er playing game
3....

Russia Celebrates The Revolution

An impressive military parade marks the 20th anniversary of the overthrow of Tsarist rule and the advent of Commu
nism.
(USSR, Celebratio
n, Soviet)
Mount Palomar Telescope N
ear...

1. Tourists looking at Che Guevara merchandise

2. Merchandise with the image o
f Che
4. Tourist picking up Che
souvenirs
5. Close up of
souvenir of Che<
br/>6. Che souvenirs
7. Pull out from Ch
e...

AP Television

FILE: Havana - 8 January
1959:
1. Various of Fidel Castro's caravan enter
ing Havana
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Hav
ana - 8 January 2008
2. Wide of crowd as
sembled on Malecon Avenue
3. Mid of...

Pro-government supporters march to Havana's emblematic Malecon carrying banners and a paper replica of the Granma yacht, on which Fidel Castro travelled back to Cuba to help lead the revolution that ousted dictator Fulgencio Batista, as...

1. Wide shot traffic outside Havana bus terminal

2. Newspaper kiosk and people buying newsp
aper
3. Man and woman seated on wall ledge reading newspaper, UPSOUND (Spanish) Woman, no name given:...

Thousands of students marched in Havana late on Tuesday to commemorate the 162nd anniversary of the birth of 19th-century independence leader Jose Marti.

Carrying torches and flags, they marched from...

Cubavision

1. Wide pan right of revolution square with thousands lining up to pay respects to Vila
Spin
2. Mid of people
lining up
3. Mid of Cuban Baseball nation
al team in...

Giron Beach, southern coast of Cuba - 6 April 2011

1. Wide shot of Giron
Beach
2. Wide of exterior of ex-Cuban President Fidel Castro's command headquarters during...

Cuban president Fidel Castro joined tens of thousands of people on Friday (17/10) for the final burial of rebel icon Ernesto "Che" Guevara, in a tomb framed by jungle vegetation in Santa Clara.

The funeral for...

1. Wide shot Cuban National Assembly interior as Fidel Castro arrives

2. Medium shot Fidel walking towards po
dium
3. Wide shot crowd clapping and chanting: "Fide
l! Fidel!"
4. Zoom in...

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Havana, Cuba July 27,
2006
1. Film clip "El Benny"
the movie
2. Tilt up "El Benn
y" movie poster
AP Telev
ision July 21,...

1. Travelling shot interior of Guillermo Farinas'' home, Cuban journalist on hunger strike, Farinas sitting on bench, wearing white pyjamas, speaking on phone

2. Mid of Farinas...