| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Fidel Castro. Dir. and prod. by Adriana Bosch. WGBH Educational Foundation, 2004. 120 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698; 800-344-3337; <shop@pbs.org>; <http://shop.pbs.org/education/> [Sept. 12, 2005])

To present a complete snapshot of Fidel Castro's forty-six-year political career spanning ten U.S. presidents is a formidable task, but the Cuban-born filmmaker Adriana Bosch comes close to achieving that goal in her 120- minute documentary about the life of the Cuban dictator. In episodic fashion, Bosch takes the viewer from Castro's childhood to his contemporary rejection of the globalized and capitalistic world. What emerges is a portrait of an always-defiant man, hungry for adulation and power and determined to impose his will and solutions on various situations.

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