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Even though I did not use the film in my research paper, I did watch the film on my own and used it to give me some perspective on the Cuban leader. Released in 2005, the PBS documentary does not give recent events such as the transfer of power to his brother Raul which happened in 2008.
When people think of Fidel Castro, they simply think of a leader who is just obsessed with cigars. This is partly true because the CIA attempted to kill him by sending him an exploding cigar. Nevertheless it gives a detailed account of his life from his early days in school to the beginning of the new millennium. The amazing fact is that he survived so many assassination attempts.The best part of the documentary is the rocky relationship Castro had with the Soviet Union especially regarding the Cuban Missile Crises. Castro wanted the information of the Soviet Union putting missiles on the island public while Nikita Khrushchev wanted the information private. It proved to be more of a political defeat for Khrushchev since he received alot of criticism of how the crises was handled but the Politburo. It does not explicitly give an opinion on whether the revolution is successful or not. The film is worth watching if you are just curious about his life.
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