Fidel Castro leads the Cuban revolution against Batista's regime. Fidel Castro along with his forces in the rugged mountains of Oriente province of Cuba during the revolution. He speaks to men and women. Men make arms and hand grenades. They work on mimeograph machines and radio sets to transmit messages. Castro with men as they look at a map and plan the strategy for the attack on Batista's Army. Castro's Army fires at National police and Batista's Army as they engage in jungle warfare. Fulgenico Batista with his children and wife appears before the press. Men click pictures of Batista with his family.
The U.S. Air Force ( USAF ) " Wings Over the Americans" squadron visits Cuba. USAF aircraft in flight. People gather at a beach. A building with 'Aeropuerto Batista' written on it. Aerial stunts performed by the aircraft thrill President Fulgencio Batista and other spectators. The U.S. flag flutters in breeze.
Revolution in Cuba. Exterior of a buildings in an area. Revolutionaries gather outside the buildings. Firing in the area. Vehicles on the street. Student clashes with the military. Clashes take toll of human life and threaten the government's program.
A reporter interviews Nobelist Ernest Hemingway in Cuba, on the occasion of his award of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Hemingway states that he would not be able to go to Sweden on advice of his doctor. He also talks about his new book on Africa, its people, animals and the changes that have taken place there.
Workers cutting sugar cane in a field in Cuba, before the takeover by Fidel Castro. View from above of a Cuban city slum at that time. Street scenes and ordinary life in the slums. Children being bathed from buckets of water. Fidel Castro and Ernesto Che Guevara with other revolutionaries in the Sierra Maestra mountains.Later they move through the land amidst cheers of supporters. Raul Castro and Che Guevara attending a public meeting. Fidel Castro harranguing a crowd in the countryside; and later from the balcony of a building in a city. Soviet Leader,Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev with Fidel Castro at the UN and in Harlem in New York City in September 1960. Cubans being executed by Guevera firing squads.
U.S. Air Force U-2 aircraft takes off from runway, and climbs rapidly.Next scene shows interior of a U.S. Air Force photo reconnaissance laboratory where films from U-2 aircraft are developed and are being examined by Air Force photo interpreters. Images of Soviet missile installations in Cuba are seen on the close-up images.