Cuba And The Cameraman: (2017)

Cuba and the Cameraman (2017) is an extraordinary, decades-spanning achievement in documentary filmmaking that manages to be both a grand historical sweep and a deeply intimate family album. Directed by veteran journalist Jon Alpert, the film distills over 45 years of footage into a 114-minute chronicle of a nation in flux.

The film follows the country from the cautious optimism of the 1970s through the harrowing "Special Period" of the 1990s after the Soviet Union's collapse, ending with Castro's death in 2016. The Heart of the Story Cuba and the Cameraman (2017)

Alpert formed a rare bond with Castro, who allowed him to ask "anything" and even travel with him on his private plane to New York in 1979. Cuba and the Cameraman (2017) is an extraordinary,