The True Story of Che Guevara
From his famous motorcycle trips to his historic role in the Cuban Revolution, Argentinean revolutionary Che Guevara is profiled in a documentary produced to explore the life of the man whose visage has become an iconic symbol of hard left politics.
This man, who ordered the execution of countless human beings while in charge of the notorious La Cabaña prison in Havana, who terrorized Cuban society and who denied freedom to thousands of citizens whom he considered "deviants" or "anti-revolutionaries" can never be accepted as a hero, martyr or -- the shock of it -- a saint.
Its a good documentary in the fact that it brings to light other people in the revolution, and it has this kind of new way of presenting the man, with lots of hard guitar in the background to make him seem "radical" i guess. Jon Anderson the author of one of the best bio's on him is interviewed many times, also there are interviews with American soldiers who fought in the revolution,which is very interesting to get to see them. Overall it is one of the better documentaries.
can anyone please confirm, it was said in the video that Che Guevara was born May 14, 1928 while in the other books it is June 14.
There is alot of derrogatory things one can say about Che Guevara but we cannot in all fairness call him a coward. He was an idealist rather than a politician and I believe he strongly wanted to do the best for his people and he was cursed by the strenght of his beliefs. He might as well have been a murderer but most of the heroes glorified by history are mass murderers sanctioned by governments with empirialistic goals. His life was guerrilla warfare, without it he was lost and while hipocritical leaders like Fidel Castro might rule longer, people will always turn to idealistic rebels like Che for hope.
Great. Tons of new material, we've never heard before, no bias or pro American propaganda...you could be enlightened for hours and hours with this stuff. just in case- yes, being sarcastic. Castrosastic...
I love Che despite of all the black mailing you can try to do on him, he was a hero and will remain celebrated
That was excellent. Jane Fonda once said that one of her regrets was not sleeping with che. The United states is the enemy of humanity. It's true.
ya boy...Che be forever with us ;)
America made Che just like we made Bin Laden. We treated the whole continent of South America as a vassal state and supported regimes whose bloodlust and body counts make anything Che or Castro did look like a !)*$&$^ tea party. I'm not saying the guy was a saint, but he was only an imp compared to the Archdemons who ruled those Latin American dictatorships and the Americans who conspired with and supported them.
... Michael, you are a Koolaid drinking id**t. and I but you've spent many hours in danger for you beleifs. On XBox.
Can somebody help me here. I have a major assignment on Che and need help urgently. What were his motives good or bad? would you say Saint or Sinner? HELP!
I really enjoy any Che/Fidel/Cuba comments, always from folk who have never spent a moment in danger for their beliefs. Che is a hero and always will be no matter how hard you try to defame him..in fact, keep it coming, it makes the 'Myth' you are trying so hard to destroy, stronger...
Pfft... Che lives and will never die, a USA documentary on Che can hardly be taken seriously...Guys, if you want to do good propaganda, disinformation, get an exile speaking peasant spanish and sub-titles for the folk in Miami..jes sayin'...
Che Guavara was not a socialist. Castro was not a socialist. They were both fascists posing as socialists. Read Marx.
Liberal capitalist society's support murder.
Capitalism only benefit the elite.
Leaving ''socialism page one stuff'' no better, no worse.
I can't believe all these pro-Che comments here. The man was a mass murder, despite his motives. Communism and socialism doesn't benefit the masses, it only benefits the elite. Rights are derived from ownership of property, and under those ideologies nobody but the elite owns property, hence the masses have no rights. This is page one stuff, and it's a shame people are so naive to the reality of the fundamental principles involved.
this is terrible pro american propaganda, not worth watching. and i live in the us.
this doc is some bs history channel propaganda like all too much stuff on that channel. However, don't get me wrong I want to hear all views. No matter how partisan or unfairly biased they might be. I do not turn it off just because I know better I want to hear it all not just turn a deaf ear. I try to keep up with all the bs propaganda that is spewed. so say a little prayer for me... I pray I will not hear lies repeated enough that I will once again start to believe them lol
Here we go again....Western Armchair Sovietoligists spewing forth their dogma and self righteouss judgements ad nauseam..Batista was a conduit for Mafia and CIA money laundering...his regime left an entire people in abject poverty..Ernesto Guevera remians the single most important reason why that corrupt and vicious regime was put to death...and he helped kill it himself. ...good work Che...instead of this nonsense...try the book "Che - a revolutionary life"...the very best work on Guevera and the Cuban Revolution available for those of the west who have nothing better to do than facilitiate ignorant criticisms based on political prejudices...Many here are probably unaware that Che wrote a treatise lambasting Leninism..a document so radical and so anti Leninist that it remained hidden in cuban archives for almost 40 years at the behest of Fidel....
What does every good teacher know?
If the class gets out of hand, you must set an example.
What does every good student know?
If the teacher is wrong, he's in the wrong class.
This Doc really gives an illusion of fairness for a bit. Then goes on totally one sided. At first saying Havana's capitalism is based on whorehouse style entertainment for the americans. Then later said Havana capitalism crumbled as if the majority of people in Cuba will miss the whorehouses dearly.
does anyone know the name of the narrater, his voice is epic....
So I'm watching the (drum roll) TRUE Story of Che Guevara and this TRUE story begins with acusations to che's hygiene and sexual habits...this scholarly work starts off great.
Anyone with a camera and a washed up brain can make a movie nowadays...
What's this... Fidel and Raul separates themselves with Che, seems little more politics is involved with Fidel in taking control of Gov. of Cuba and Che with revolutionary vision for entire world. Indeed Soviet and China had some differences with US from early days and its all more of economic superiority then of communist mentality. Fidel becoming socialist when its required? Thats poor to hear that.....i feel that he had a great motive in Cuba rather than Marxism or Leninism.
Wasn't the United States once controlled by the British? Did the people rise up and liberate themselves? I think people are missing a common similarity. The fear of people, like CHE were fuelled media propaganda, and still are (Hugo Chavez). When a country is controlled by foreign capitalism there is no democracy. So you need a "dictator" to stand up and LEAD a nation. DICTATOR= someone high in government that does no share views and ideologies of the capitalist United States. Bias movie! How deep will we fall before we realize we are falling?
p.s. This movie was funded by the U.S. government
There are those who grumble about his life, and those who stand up for him... This is not about how many people he executed; this is about the evil who lives inside every good person. That's why Third-World born attack for a reason; and it's the same reason why my people starve to death.
Read more and more my man. Read the history of Latin-America, Africa, Middle East and South-East Asia and you will probably change your mind. You will discover why Revolutionaries exist.
Que viva la Revolucion!
jen shut up you are to ignorant to realise you as a country let your greatest hero die sure he executed lots of people but what did they expect he did what he felt he had to to protect the regiem its fidel who made him execute his first prisinor and fidel who used him fidel who turned on him and made it look like he didnt fidel who sent all your prisoners to camps under the highways of america che did what he was told and trust me i have more knolege than youd think iv studied his lifeline scince i was a small child