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Length: 02:27
Posted: 2/5/2010

The trailer for Sons of Cuba. Despite being a poverty stricken, isolated island of 11 million, Cuba is the world superpower of amateur boxing. In the past 40 years it has won a staggering 63 Olympic medals in the sport, 32 of them gold. But little was known about how these results were achieved until Andrew Lang and his team became the first film crew ever to be given access to the Havana Boxing Academy. Here, a hand picked group of 10-year old boys rise at 4am, six days a week to begin an excruciating routine of boxing training. Chanting Victory is our duty! Fatherland or death! as they shadow box in the dead of night, these are the boys Fidel Castro has called the standard bearers of the Revolution This fascinating behind the scenes insight into the Havana Boxing Academy is captured in Sons of Cuba a powerful, uplifting documentary that is released at cinemas on 19 March 2010. Sons of Cuba follows the stories of three young hopefuls through eight months of training as they prepar watch

VIDEO: ALFRED LESLIE: COOL MAN IN A GOLDEN AGE

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ALFRED LESLIE: COOL MAN IN A GOLDEN AGE
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Length: 02:33
Posted: 2/3/2010

Alfred Leslie is a pivotal American artist-painter-filmmaker whose work spans the past fifty years. A celebrated contemporary of the Abstract Expressionists and a key figure in the extraordinary social milieu of downtown New York from the 1950s and 60s to the present, his own canvases were amongst the most revered of his peers. In 1964 he made 'Pull My Daisy' with the photographer Robert Frank and in 1966 collaborated with the inimitable poet Frank O Hara on 'The Last Clean Shirt'. In 1960 he edited and published the amazing collection of texts and drawings that form the one shot review 'The Hasty Papers' in and of itself a summation of cultural activity with contributions from Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery and Fidel Castro amongst many others. Leslie dramatically moved away from abstraction to make giant almost hyper-real portraits, the majority of which were destroyed in the now infamous fire that ripped through his studio and its neighboring blocks on October 17, 1966. This utter watch

VIDEO: After The Revolution

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After The Revolution
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Posted: 1/19/2010

Nearly 50 years after the revolution, is Cuba on the brink of another major change? Dreams of founding a Socialist utopia have all but vanished. Few expect Fidel Castro to return to government. Even his brother, Raul, accepts the economy needs to be reformed. But decades of crippling sanctions have not had the desired effect. Cuba famously has one of the best healthcare and education systems in the world. watch

Fidel Castro encourages numerous successful revolutions in countries other than Cuba.
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Posted: 6/2/2009
Fidel Castro encourages numerous successful revolutions in countries other than Cuba.
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Posted: 9/30/2008
Fidel Castro encourages numerous successful revolutions in countries other than Cuba.
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Posted: 9/30/2008
Fidel Castro encourages numerous successful revolutions in countries other than Cuba.
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Posted: 9/18/2008
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2005 American Experience: Fidel Castro
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1946 Holiday In Mexico Movie, Actor
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