Through the files of Cuban cinema news program Noticieros ICAIC Latinoamericanos, the documentary shows the most relevant events of the second half of the 20th century as seen by the documentary filmmakers of the island. During three decades and under the general direction of Santiago Álvarez, these moviemakers witnessed almost everything: from the shivers of the Cold War to Bola de Nieve's piano solos; from the discovery of the killing fields in Cambodia to the Carnation Revolution in Portugal. In 2009, the original negatives of Noticieros ICAIC Latinoamericanos were declared part of the "world memory" by UNESCO.
Che Guevara
Iván Nápoles
Jerónimo Labrada
Alfredo Guevara
Julio Batista
Osvaldo Dorticós
José Massip
Santiago Álvarez
Walter Achugar
Joris Ivens
Octavio Cortázar
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Anne Wiazemsky
Jean-Luc Godard
Iván Nápoles
Julio García Espinosa
Raúl Rodríguez
Pepin Rodriguez
Rosalina Saavedra
Pablo Martínez
Julio Simoneau
Rebeca Chávez
Miriam Talavera
Daniel Diez
Julia Yip
Maria Rojas
Miguel Torres
Fidel Castro
Carlos Puebla
Samora Moises Machel
Mário Soares
Camilo Cienfuegos
Fernando Pérez
Salvador Allende
Bola de Nieve
Daniel Díaz Torres
Ramón Marrero