cuba

The story of four strong-willed women of the del Pino family of Havana and of Brooklyn who are divided by conflicting political loyalties.

Examines the causes and effects of uprisings in Cuba, from Spanish colonial rule to independence, and looks at the controversial leadership and philosophies of communist dictator Fidel Castro.

Profiles the Cuban musicians who contributed to the album The Buena Vista Social Club.

Explores the life of Fidel Castro, examining perceptions of his role as either a dictator or a liberator, focusing on how he is seen by Latin Americans over his fifty years of leadership, and covers the pressure he has received from the United States and the Soviet Union and his influence on other insurgencies and uprisings around the world.

Plantation slave Perro Viejo, taken from his mother at birth, meets Beira, an old slave believed to be a witch, and together they hatch a plan to escape.

In this Cuban folktale, a bossy rooster dirties his beak when he eats a kernel of corn and must find a way to clean it before his parrot uncle's wedding.

Relates the experiences of Claudio Jos? Domingo Brindis de Salas, a Cuban violin prodigy who overcame racial prejudice and became a world-renown musician.

An adaptation of a popular story about Martina, a little cockroach who takes Ratoncito P?rez as her husband because he answered correctly her question on how he would sing to their offspring.

A collection of short stories which portrays the hopes, pleasures, and frustrations of a sensitive black country boy who is anxious to learn about the world around him.

Robert Kennedy recounts the details of his brother's direction of the American response to the Cuban missile crisis.