Fidel Castro

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Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as prime minister 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 1965 until 2011. Under his administration, Cuba became a one-party communist state; industry and business were nationalized, and socialist reforms were implemented throughout society.

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Known For

JFK

Self (archive footage)

Topaz

Self (archive footage)

Wasp Network

Self (archive footage)

Nixon

(Archive footage)

The Fog of War

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

How to Become a Tyrant

Self (archive footage)

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

Self (archive footage)

Naqoyqatsi

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2026	Station Hope MOVIE	Self - Archival Footage
2026	A-Bomb Museum MOVIE	himself (footage)
2026	America Who Are You? TV	Self (archive footage)
2026	Nostalgia for the Future MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2026	Revolution's Daughter MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2025	Germán Araújo MOVIE	Himself (archival footage)
2025	JFK Assassination: A New Perspective MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2024	Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2024	Lula MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2024	História do Comunismo TV	Self
2024	Suite Tortilla #59: The Celluloid Women MOVIE	Self (Voice)
2024	Mário MOVIE	Self
2023	The Padilla Affair MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2022	The Century of Icons TV	Self (archive footage)
2022	Andança: Os Encontros e as Memórias de Beth Carvalho MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2022	Rat Pack MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2021	Becoming Cousteau MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2021	A History of an Assignment MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2021	How to Become a Tyrant TV	Self (archive footage)
2021	Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2021	Under the spell of the bomb MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2021	Spycraft TV	Self
2020	537 Votes MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2020	Wasp Network MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2019	Laboratory Greece MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2019	Castro's Revolution vs. The World TV	Self
2019	Amérique latine, l'année de tous les dangers MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2019	Chop Chop Chang: Operation C.H.I.M.P MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2019	ReMastered: Massacre at the Stadium MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2018	Cuba, un aller et un retour MOVIE	Himself (archive footage)
2018	Another Day of Life MOVIE	Himself (archive footage)
2018	Minnesota Experience TV	Self (archive footage)
2018	Chavismo: The Plague of the 21st Century MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2018	Explained TV	Self (archive footage)
2018	Karl Marx und seine Erben MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2017	Che Guevara, naissance d'un mythe MOVIE	Self
2017	Cuba and the Cameraman MOVIE	Self
2017	El Che MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2017	Two Meetings and a Funeral MOVIE	Self
2017	Angola: The War MOVIE	Himself - President of Cuba (archive footage)
2017	Elián MOVIE	himself
2017	Nobody MOVIE	Himself
2016	Historien ska frikänna mig MOVIE	Self
2016	Franco and Fidel: A Strange Friendship MOVIE	Himself
2016	Fidel Castro: America's Nemesis MOVIE	Himself (Archive Footage)
2016	Assassinating Franco MOVIE	Self
2016	Legends of Cinema TV	Self (archive footage)
2016	Cuba, l'histoire secrète MOVIE	Self
2016	Algiers, the Mecca of Revolutionaries (1962-1974) MOVIE	Self
2015	American Comandante MOVIE	Self (archival footage)
2015	Castro: The World's Most Watched Man MOVIE	Himself (archive footage)
2015	Celia - la más hermosa flor MOVIE	Self
2015	Guerilleros TV	Self (archive footage)
2015	Laissez-faire MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2014	My Friend Hugo MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2013	High and Hallowed: Everest 1963 MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2013	Lee Harvey Oswald: 48 Hours to Live MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2012	Cuba, Batista et la mafia MOVIE	Fidel Castro
2012	The Man Who Saved the World MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2012	The Day That Lasted 21 Years MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2012	Palme MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2012	The Mayor MOVIE	Self
2012	My boy, look at the stars MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2012	7 Days in Havana MOVIE	Self (segment "Diary of a Beginner") (archive footage)
2012	Castro in Winter MOVIE	Self
2012	Ethel MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2011	Memories of Overdevelopment MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2011	Mentiras verdaderas TV	Self (archive footage)
2011	Santiago Files MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2011	El día más largo MOVIE	Self
2010	Memória Cubana MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2010	La Case du Siècle TV	Self (archive footage)
2010	CUBA: Defending Socialism, Resisting Imperialism MOVIE	Himself
2010	Being Fidel Castro MOVIE	Himself (archive footage)
2010	The Inconclusive Independence MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2009	Did the Mob Kill JFK? MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2009	South of the Border MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2009	The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien TV	Self (archive footage)
2008	Året var 1958 MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2007	RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2007	Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2007	Oswald's Ghost MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2007	The War on Democracy MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2007	Lejos de la isla MOVIE	Himself (archive footage)
2007	Un Giorno con Fidel MOVIE	Himself
2006	Cuba, el valor de una utopía MOVIE	Himself
2006	638 Ways to Kill Castro MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2006	Looking for Fidel MOVIE	Himself
2006	'68 - Reality's Utopia MOVIE	Self (archive footage)(uncredited)
2005	I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2005	Kordavision: The man who shot Che Guevara MOVIE	Self
2005	The Adventures of Errol Flynn MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2004	Salvador Allende MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2004	Fidel Castro: Life for the Revolution MOVIE	Self
2004	Looking for Fidel MOVIE	Self
2004	el moro MOVIE	Self
2003	Jack Paar: Smart Television MOVIE	Self
2003	Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers MOVIE	Self
2003	The Fog of War MOVIE	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2003	Comandante MOVIE	Self
2003	Che Guevara - Hasta La Victoria Siempre MOVIE	Self
2002	Naqoyqatsi MOVIE	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002	Fond Memories of Cuba MOVIE	Himself
2002	Balseros MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2002	Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film MOVIE	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2001	The Cuban Game MOVIE	Himself (footage)
2001	Dear Fidel: Marita's Story MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2000	Kubánske otázniky MOVIE	archívne zábery
1999	Faith of the Century: A History of Communism TV	Self (archive footage)
1999	The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1997	Rogues Gallery TV	Self (archive footage)
1996	Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2 MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1995	Nixon MOVIE	(Archive footage)
1995	Ernesto Che Guevara - Uomo, Compagno, Amico MOVIE	Self
1995	El último panfleto MOVIE	Self
1995	Ernesto Che Guevara MOVIE	Self(archive footage)
1994	The World of Polygoon MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1993	8A MOVIE	Self
1992	The JFK Conspiracy MOVIE	Self
1991	JFK MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1991	Lest We Forget MOVIE	Self (segment "Pour Esteban González González, Cuba") (archive footage) (uncredited)
1991	Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America MOVIE	Self(archive footage)
1991	Portrait of Castro's Cuba MOVIE	Himself
1990	Hồ Chí Minh - Portrait of A Man MOVIE	Self (archival footage)
1990	Cuba 30 Anni Dopo MOVIE	Himself
1988	American Expose: Who Murdered JFK? MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1988	The Uncompromising Revolution MOVIE	Self
1987	Brascuba MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1987	Parlez-moi du Che MOVIE	Self
1987	The CIA's War Against Cuba MOVIE	Self
1987	Fidel Racconta il Che MOVIE	Himself
1986	Chile: A Genral Record MOVIE	Self
1986	Cuba: In the Shadow of Doubt MOVIE	Self
1984	Informe especial TV	Self (archive footage)
1984	Improper Conduct MOVIE	Self - Politician (archive footage)
1984	Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1983	Vietnam: A Television History TV	Self (archive footage)
1983	James Bond: The First 21 Years MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1983	First Tuesday TV	Self
1983	Che, Today and Always MOVIE	Fidel Castro
1980	La marcha del pueblo combatiente MOVIE	Self
1980	On Company Business MOVIE	Self - Prime Minister of Cuba (archive footage)
1980	The Necessary War MOVIE	Himself
1980	A propósito de nuestra historia MOVIE	Archive
1979	Mission Mind Control MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1977	A Grin Without a Cat MOVIE	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1977	The CIA's Secret Army MOVIE	Self
1977	My Brother, Fidel MOVIE	Self
1975	Waiting for Fidel MOVIE	Self
1974	General Idi Amin Dada MOVIE	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
1974	The Society of the Spectacle MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1974	Cuba and Fidel MOVIE	Self
1974	History of Brazil MOVIE	Self (archive)
1973	Venceremos, solidaridad MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1973	Chile, el gran desafío MOVIE	Self
1973	And Heaven Was Taken by Storm MOVIE	Self
1973	About Extra Hours and Volunteer Work MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1972	The Exploitation of Man by Man MOVIE	Self
1972	Compromiso con Chile MOVIE	Self
1972	The First Year MOVIE	Self
1972	El Diálogo de América MOVIE	Él mismo
1972	I Am a Son of America MOVIE	Él mismo
1971	Fidel MOVIE	Self
1971	Cuba: Battle of the 10,000,000 MOVIE	Self
1970	Report on Brazil: Carlos Marighella MOVIE	Himself (archive footage)
1969	Topaz MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1968	The Hour of the Furnaces MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1967	World in Action: End of a Revolution MOVIE	Self
1967	Far from Vietnam MOVIE	Self (segment "Fidel Castro")
1965	Primeros Juegos Deportivos Nacionales en Cuba (Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano) MOVIE	Self
1963	Hello Cubans MOVIE	Self (uncredited)
1963	Guest from the Island of Freedom MOVIE	Self
1963	World in Action TV	Self
1962	Muerte al invasor MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1961	¡Cuba Sí! MOVIE	Self - Cuban Politician (uncredited)
1961	Extra 1ero 26 de julio socialista (Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano, No. 60) MOVIE	Self
1961	Island Ablazed MOVIE	Self
1960	ABC Close-Up: Yanki, No! MOVIE	Self
1960	General Assembly MOVIE	Fidel Castro
1959	Cuban Rebel Girls MOVIE	Self (uncredited)
	Fidel Castro no Rio de Janeiro, 1959 MOVIE	Self
	Attack on the Americas MOVIE	Himself
	Un italiano per Fidel MOVIE	Self
	Fidel Castro: We Shall Overcome! MOVIE	Self
	Network First TV	Self

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