Fidel Castro: El Comandante

• Documentary

Episode overview

He stood defiantly at the center of some of the worst crises of the Cold War. After over 40 years of rule, he remains one of the most controversial political figures of all time. Join Biography for a revealing portrait of Fidel Castro, the last great communist leader. Fidel Castro led a remarkable three-year fight to rescue his country from a corrupt regime. Yet this rebel leader—who once claimed that he wasn’t interested in leading the new government—became a tyrant, imprisoning and executing thousands of political opponents in the process of transforming his nation. Through rare archival footage and personal interviews, this extraordinarily insightful program explores the life, rise, and rule of this iconically bearded, cigar-smoking Cuban leader known to many as El Comandante.

60 minutes