Education Educacíon
Children Are the Hope of the World
This video is a look into the educational system in Cuba. Six Cuban schools are visited, several interviews are conducted with principals and students in which they share their hopes and dreams for the future
Director Lázaro Fariñas
Genre Documentary
Year 1998
Length 30 min.
Language Spanish and English
Subtitles English
Una isla para Miguel An Island for Miguel
Filmed in the early years of the revolution, this documentary follows the case of Miguel, a 'juvenile delinquent' sent to a re-education camp for street kids who refused to work or go to school.
Director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabío
Genre Documentary
Year 1968
Length 18 min.
Language Spanish
Subtitles None
Maestra Teacher
Interviews participants of the Cuban literacy campaign of 1961, showing original film footage of the movement.
Director Catherine Murphy
Genre Documentary
Year 2013
Length 33 min.
Language English and Spanish
Subtitles English
Historia de una batalla, recuento de 1961 año de la educación The Story of a Battle
Documents a massive literacy campaign undertaken in Cuba in the early years of the communist revolution.
Director Manuel Octavio Gómez
Genre Documentary
Year 1962
Length 37 min.
Language English and Spanish
Subtitles English
Children of Cuba Ismaelillo
A new primary school is established and built for the benefit of Cuba's previously deprived children. Includes footage of a shanty town with open sewers, and the construction of the school.
Director Rosina Perez Hernández
Genre Documentary
Year 1962
Length 19 min.
Language Spanish
Subtitles None
The Path of the Revolution
Documentary about life in Cuba since the revolution. It focuses in particular on the new opportunities for education, both for children and adults. [–] A slightly different edit of the film of the same name also included in this collection. The film explains how educated fourteen-year olds were encouraged out of the cities and into the mountains in the summer to teach older, illiterate people there. There is also a section on the renaissance of local farming and fishing industries. The only notes of negativity are the result of American activity - the bombing of a civilian airport and the continued military presence at Guantanamo Bay.
Director Bruno Sefranka
Genre Documentary
Year 1962
Length 27 min.
Language English
Subtitles English
Sources
Rozsa, Irene. "Film Culture and Education in Republican Cuba: The Legacy of José Manuel Valdés-Rodríguez." In Cosmopolitan Film Cultures in Latin America, 1896-1960, edited by NAVITSKI RIELLE and POPPE NICOLAS, 298-323. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2017. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2005vd4.23.