Cuban President Fulgenci Batista greets visiting officials as they enter the Presidential Palace in Havana. Armed soldiers guard the entrance way and an antiaircraft gun is seen on the sidewalk. Street scenes of armed conflict March 13, 1957, as a group of university students storms the Presidential Palace intent on executing dictator Fulgencio Batista. People scurrying for cover as armed police engage the attackers on downtown streets. Police armored personnel carrier sits in the street. A truck full of armed police reinforcements arrives. Ambulance drives on street. A policeman carries a wounded woman. Bullet holes in windows. A person killed in the conflict. Scene shifts to a rural area where a jeep drives along a dirt road past a revolutionary sentry. Several revolutionaries from Venuezela and other Latin American countries are seen along with Cubans, in the company of Fidel Castro, who converses with them. On July 30, 1957, a funeral is held in Santiago de Cuba, for revolutionary, Frank Pais, assassinated by police. People crowd the street as his coffin is carried out of the church.They shout "venganza," (revenge). Elsewhere, police stand over the bodies of killed revolutionaries. Scenes of people meeting and grieving. Revolutionaries in the bush country of Oriente province. They ride horses. Che Guevara seen with them working with arms and explosives. Burning building and damage resulting from attacks by Batista forces. Castro with revolutionaries organizing in Oriente. Che Guevera instructing in use of arms and explosives. Revolutionaries unleashing heavy gunfire at Bastista forces. A revolutionaries hospital treating a wounded member. Open fire fights between Bastista forces and Castro revolutionaries.
Revolutionaries moving through the mountains during Cuban revolution. Buildings bombed and burned by Batista forces. Armed soldiers in defensive positions atop the Presidential Palace in Havana. President Fulgenci Batista with others. Cuban General Staff Chief, Francisco Tabernilla Dolz and a Lieutenant General discussing defense matters. Cuban soldiers on tanks. Castro addresses guerrillas. Che Guevera working with rebels in the mountains. They assemble and test rifle-launched grenades. Fire fights between revolutionaries and the Batista forces. The Cuban Army Air Force (FAEC--Fuerza Aérea Ejército de Cuba) attacks using P-47 aircraft, seen firing at revolutionaries on the ground. Rebels firing heavy machine guns, rifles, and rifle grenades. Castro's revolutionaries, under the leadership of Ernesto “Ché” Guevara, engage Federal troops at Santa Clara. They are seen taking prisoners and in the city itself. A building sign reads: "Seccion Policia Nacional Vigilante Hidalgo." An FAEC B-26 bomber is seen low overhead. Rebels fire at it with small arms from a truck moving along the street. FAEC B-26s engaged in nighttime support missions with Batista forces (commencing November 10, 1958). B-26s dropping bombs. P-47 aircraft are also seen. Bombs exploding. Civilian women and children seeking escape from the bombing. Wounded revolutionaries being treated in a hospital. Armed women revolutionaries. Rebel forces eating a meal. Che Guevara being greeted as he walks amongst civilians in the city. Revolutionaries stand atop a building waving their flag. A woman holds an injured child. A cross is erected in a cemetery. Fidel Castro with some of his followers talking to a captured Federal officer
A plane at an airfield in Cuba. Guerrillas gather at a place. They are coming to shore. Guerrillas going on pier. Other Guerrillas see from coast. Civilians include children along the coast. Camilo Cienfuegos seen among guerrillas on pier. A guerrilla reads a book and others around him. Guerrillas enter a boat. The boat goes in the river. A ship in the river. A ladder on the plane.
A plane flies by during Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba. Bombing by a plane. People run on streets. A jeep comes. Captain Alberto Fernandez drives military van and talking with another man sitting on back seat. Car passes through smoke. A pilot boards a jet plane. The plane takes off. Scene of runway.
Cuban President Fidel Castro talks on radio set during the Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba. Fidel Castro waves. Trucks on a street. Cuban soldiers on a tank. Soldiers on both sides of street and trucks go in between. Two men hide in a lavatory. American soldiers search for them. They both talk with each other and come out with hands on their heads. A woman named Ompara Ortiz tells about an incident by gestures of hands. Firing by both side soldiers. Scenes of soldiers in action holding rifles. Dead bodies of soldiers. An officer explains. A plane drops bomb.
A pilot sits in a bomber plane during Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba. Plane drops bombs on land and ships. Tanks shoot planes flying in sky. Commandant Enrique Carreras talks to Captain Gustavo Bourzac. The pilot looks at the ships in the sea from the plane. Soldiers on a ship.