The Cuban Revolution in Havana, Cuba. Peasants at work in sugar cane field. Clusters of huts in city slums. Poor people in the slums. Small huts along the slums. A girl bathing a child in front of a hut. Fidel Castro, a revolutionary leader, with other guerrillas in a hilly area. Castro, who supports the middle class people, in a crowd. People on streets applaud. Castro with Cuban people. His brother Raul Castro and his associate Che Guevara during a revolution in Guatemala. Castro speaking in a microphone. Other officials beside him. A large crowd listens to him and applauds. Fidel Castro with Cuban Prime Minister Jose Miro Cardona, former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and other officials after the overthrow of the Batista government. A Cuban firing squad executing a prisoner.
Castro rebel troops (Also known as the “M-26-7”) march in a street in Havana, Cuba. Air force planes strafing. Cuban residents evacuate the bombings and attacks from planes. Plane firing at night with tracer rounds. Castro rebel troops on rooftop of building with bullet holes. A female Communist rebel, likely Celia Sanchez, holding a machine gun (likely an AKM). Fidel Castro hugs and talks to Cuban women. Castro rebel troops, on top of trucks and tanks, parading in Havana street after Castro takeover of Havana. A man, likely Che Guevara, smokes a cigarette outside a crowded estate. Fidel Castro speaks to crowd. Fidel Castro converses with U.S. Ambassador Earl E. T. Smith. Fidel Castro speaks with a woman. Crowd gathers around a Cubana Airlines plane. Closeup of Cuban provisional president Dr. Manuel Urrutia. President Urrutia conversing with Castro. Cuban flag is hoisted aloft. President Urrutia acknowledging applause from crowd at outdoor gathering. President Urrutia seated in the stands with his wife.
Statue of José Marti, designed by Enrique Luis Varela and sculpted by Juan José Sicre, at foot of Marti memorial monument in Revolution Square, Havana, Cuba. The Cuban flag on the Ministry of Interior building, across the square. Camilo Cienfuegos addresses people and Fidel Castro smiles in Havana, Cuba. A procession by people. Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos with others sitting. President Manuel Urrutia comes with others. Soviet vice-prime minister, Anastas Mikoyan, steps from Soviet plane. He meets President Urrutia. Mikoyan wearing a straw hat with "Cuba" written on it. Fidel Castro and leading revolutionary figures attend a formal reception for Mikoyan. A signboard reads 'INRA Cooperative Arroceru Jose Smith Comas Zona H-10 Cardenas'. Farmers in field with their cattle. Fidel Castro addresses the press. Cuban workmen handling lumber at a construction site. A board reads'Instituto Nacional de Ahorro y Vivienda,' and announces the construction of a planned city of 300 homes. Women parade holding rifles. The French freighter La Coubre exploding on March 4,1960, while being unloaded in Havana harbor, Cuba. Scenes of explosions and fire as people run to escape the area. Fire fighters trying to extinguish flames, and similar events are captured by the camera. Post accident scenes of Castro speaking to the populace and of mourners walking along the street in Havana. (Note: This French ship was carrying munitions from Antwerp.Approximately 100 people were killed and twice as many injured in this terrible accident.)
Opening title “Purge of Batista War Criminals Continuing”. View of the La Cabana Fortress. Castro soldier with wearing cross and carrying rifle standing guard. Sympathizers of former Cuban President Fulgencio Batista in prison. Batista sympathizers standing behind bars. A child of a Batista sympathizer looks at the camera behind bars. A family of Batista sympathizers behind bars, one of the women holding a baby. A panelist during a revolutionary tribunal trial against Batista sympathizers in La Cabana Fortress. A prisoner speaks before the revolutionary panel. A prisoner, wearing a hat, is marched to a wall. Prisoner waves his left arm. Prisoner is executed.
Wreath adorned with Communist Hammer and sickle, on the statue of José Martí in Central Park, Havana, Cuba. Members of a crowd of anti-communist Cubans burning Communist literature and materials in a city street. Soldiers controlling access in a street as Communists take control of Cuba. Americans opposed to the Castro revolution. Sign outside a building in Miami, Florida, reads: "Christian Anti Communist Group,America for the Americans,Liberty and Democracy." Local Miami police stand near the building, where Fidel Castro is hung in effigy. President Manuel Urrutia addressing press in Miami. People conversing. A woman types on typewriter. Riots going on streets. People fight with each other. Blood comes out from a man's head. Scene of Hotel Riviera and Hotel Capri. Fidel Castro addresses press. Camilo Cienfuegos and other prominent dignitaries. People carry signs in a procession. Signs read 'Hitler y Franco Asesinos' and 'Fuera el Embajador Falangista'. Machines print newspapers.
Communist leader Fidel Castro and Prime Minister Jose Miro Cardona with others in Havana, Cuba. Women and nurses in dresses marching in a parade. Fidel Castro watches the parade. Argentinian Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara is also seen with Castro. Fidel Castro attends the first Congreso Latinoamericano de Juventudes at the Cerro stadium (Estadio Latinoamericano, 4J9F+FJ6, La Habana, Cuba) in Havana. Castro comes on stage. Castro announces the decision to nationalize North American companies in Cuba as a response to United States’ economic sanctions. Fidel Castro sworn in as Prime Minister of Cuba. People carry banners in a procession.