Portrait of a Revolution
- Program
- Portrait of a Revolution
- Producing Organization
- Potomac Films
- Contributing Organization
- Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/512-pn8x922g3s
- NOLA Code
- POAR
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- Description
- Program Description
- Through film clips, interviews and narration, this program shows two things: how the army of eleven men who survived the landing in southeastern Cuba with Fidel Castro in 1956 was able to defeat an army of 40,000 men and rout a dictator with absolute control over his country, and what kind of man Fidel Castro is to the men and women who knew him before, during and after the fighting. The program is narrated by Martin Agronsky, Peabody Award winning news commentator. He introduces the men and women who know Castro: Colonel Julio Bayo, the former Spanish Civil War fighter, who trained Castros men in guerilla warfare; Vilma Espin, who left her study of chemical engineering at MIT to join the rebels in the hill and later married Fidels brother Raul; Guerrero, the American soldier of fortune who calls Castro the greatest military strategist in history; Jules Dubois, one of the first American journalist to recognize Castros growing strength; and Constantin Kangles, an American lawyer who worked for the rebel leader. There are film clips of the fighting in the mountains of Oriente province, Castros triumphal entry to Havana, the trails of Batistas men in the Sports Palace. The program cites the problems Castro will have to solve before he fulfills his promise of education, housing, jobs, and land for Cubas 6,000,000 people. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Program Description
- 30 minute program, produced on film in 1959 by Potomac Films.
- Broadcast Date
- 1959-00-00
- Asset type
- Program
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Credits
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Narrator: Agronsky, Martin
Producing Organization: Potomac Films
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 2325492-1 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 16mm film
Generation: Copy: Access
Color: B&W
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Portrait of a Revolution,” 1959-00-00, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed July 17, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-pn8x922g3s.
- MLA: “Portrait of a Revolution.” 1959-00-00. Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. July 17, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-pn8x922g3s>.
- APA: Portrait of a Revolution. Boston, MA: Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-pn8x922g3s