Moncada army barracks near Santiago de Cuba, immediately following the unsuccessful attack by Castro-led revolutionaries, on July 26, 1953. Soldiers in the yard of the installation. Cuban military commander and soldiers talking with officials. A bullet-riddled vehicle and many dead revolutionaries. Armed soldiers sitting on the veranda of the barracks.Fulgencio Batista visiting and viewing the captured materials of the revolutionaries.Frank Pais sitting with associate. Marker at street intersection in Santiago de Cuba reads: "Ave 7A and Calle 20." Revolutionary safe house at that location is shown. posters being prepared containing pictures of Revolutionary National Action group posing with the Cuban national flag. Frank País being interviewed. Newspapers announce the death of Salas Cañizares. Large crowd seen at his funeral.Parts of the United states and Mexico are marked on maps showing where Castro's revolution was finding support in funds and supplies. yankee Stadium in New York City is seen being papered with pamphlets. A patrol craft docked, bearing number: "GC 106." People visiting a cemetery with new graves marked with temporary wooden markers. Revolutionaries in the mountains.Fidel Castro getting a haircut and firing a pistol outdoors. Woman sews insignia of july 26th on a uniform.
Guerrillas with guns gather in Havana, Cuba. Cuban President Fidel Castro addresses them. Military trucks on road. Ships in water. An illustrated map of Cuba. Planes fly by. Guerrillas practice. A man meets a United States Army officer at an air base. American President John F Kennedy with Lyman Lemnitzer, Chief of the Joint Chief of Staff, George Decker, Chief of the Land Forces section, Curtis E LeMay, Chief of the Air Force section, General David M Shoup, Commander of the Marines, and Admiral George W Anderson Jr., Chief of Navy Operations. Curtis E LeMay waves towards people. People on ship.
An illustrated map of Cuba focuses on Yaguaramas. Soldiers with rocket launchers in hands during the Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba. Soldiers fire with their guns and launchers. Soldiers die. Jose Ramon Cante, a soldier. A soldier talks. Other soldiers watch over the other side. A pilot goes in a jet plane. Plane takes off. Plane fire bullets. A bus coming on a road. It stops and a man comes out. Soldiers hide in farms fire on people in bus. A soldier sets gun and fires. A soldier injured badly. A tank rolls on road.
Fidel Castro with his soldiers in the forest during Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba. Soldiers in action with guns in hands. Trucks on roads. Soldiers with rocket launchers on shoulders. An illustrated map of Cuba. A tank on move. A plane takes off. Scenes of explosions done by plane.
Views of people from various countries of the world and of South America about the Cuban revolution and rule of Fidel Castro in Cuba. A motorcade on roads of Havana. Groups of people cheer after Fidel Castro comes to power overthrowing Dictator Fulgencio Batista on January 01, 1959. A Venezuelan expert talks about Castro after the success of revolution. Huge crowd cheers for Castro as he addresses a crowd. Court hearings of opponents of Castro and other leaders. Execution of leaders by gunshots. Cuban communist leader and a judge sent to exile by Batista return to Cuba. Italian experts talks about Castro and his policies. Colleagues of Castro, and people arrested by Castro after revolution.
A film titled 'One Week In October' based on the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 when the United States and the Soviet Union confronted each other with nuclear destruction. A U.S. reconnaissance photograph of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. The second photograph shows Cuban land after the removal of the nuclear missiles. Soviet ballistic missiles on a launch pad in Cuba.