"Yoani Sanchez is an unusual dissident: no street protests, no attacks on big politicos, no calls for revolution. Rather, she produces a simple diary about what it means to live under the Castro regime in Cuba: the difficulty of shopping and chronic hunger; the art of repairing ancient appliances; the struggle for real news and the burdens of reading the party newspaper; the fear of admission to hospitals that lack the supplies for basic sterilization;...

This documentary follows an ordinary American teenager as he faces extraordinary challenges when he sets his heart on donating equipment to young Cuban baseball players—an act of thanks to the country that saved his grandfather during the Holocaust. It presents a heartfelt journey that shows just how difficult and complex it can be to do a simple good deed.

Fidel Castro in Havana, with guerrillas

Castro at rally in Havana;(biased) narration indicates that summary trials and executions of Batista followers are under reconsideration; great indication of Castro's popular power in the years after the revolution

"After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity--and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution"--

Relates events in the childhood of architect Secundino Fernandez, who left his beloved Havana, Cuba, with his parents, first to spend a year in Spain, and later to move to New York City.

Enjoy all the color and excitement as Alvaro paints the flamboyant characters that abound in the beautiful city of Havana. Learn as he shows how to convey the color and character of backlit musicians, the city's bicycle taxi riders hanging round on street corners, the music and ambience in Havana’s famous café, la Taberna, the atmosphere of a quaint old barbershop and, best of all, enjoy the fun as Alvaro paints one of Havana's famous cigar smoking...