Che Guevara
Ernesto Rafael "Che" Guevara de la Serna (14 June 1928 – 9 October 1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.
As a young medical student, Guevara traveled throughout South America and was radicalized by the poverty, hunger and disease he witnessed. His burgeoning desire to help overturn what he saw as the capitalist exploitation of Latin America by the United States prompted his involvement in Guatemala's social reforms under President Jacobo Árbenz, whose eventual CIA-assisted overthrow at the behest of the United Fruit Company solidified Guevara's political ideology. Later in Mexico City, Guevara met Raúl and Fidel Castro, joined their 26th of July Movement and sailed to Cuba aboard the yacht Granma with the intention of overthrowing U.S.-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Guevara soon rose to prominence among the insurgents, was promoted to second in command and played a pivotal role in the victorious two-year guerrilla campaign that deposed the Batista regime.
Guevara remains both a revered and reviled historical figure, polarized in the collective imagination in a multitude of biographies, memoirs, essays, documentaries, songs and films. As a result of his perceived martyrdom, poetic invocations for class struggle and desire to create the consciousness of a "new man" driven by moral rather than material incentives, Guevara has evolved into a quintessential icon of various leftist movements. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century, while an Alberto Korda photograph of him, titled Guerrillero Heroico, was cited by the Maryland Institute College of Art as "the most famous photograph in the world".
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Photos
Films (50)
A History of an Assignment
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Laboratory Greece
2019 · Self (archive footage)
Che, Memórias de um Ano Secreto
2018 · Self (archive footage)
Che Guevara, naissance d'un mythe
2017
El Che
2017 · Self (archive footage)
Cuba, l'histoire secrète
2016
Algiers, the Mecca of Revolutionaries (1962-1974)
2016 · Self
American Comandante
2015 · Self (archival footage)
Laissez-faire
2015 · Self (archive footage)
Cuba, Batista et la mafia
2012 · Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
My boy, look at the stars
2012 · Self (archive footage)
Ernesto Guevara
2010
Memória Cubana
2010 · Self (archive footage)
CUBA: Defending Socialism, Resisting Imperialism
2010 · Himself
The Inconclusive Independence
2010 · Self (archive footage)
Che: Part Two
2008 · Author
Che: Part One
2008 · Author
Chevolution
2008
Personal Che
2007 · self
'68 - Reality's Utopia
2006 · Self (archive footage)(uncredited)
Kordavision: The man who shot Che Guevara
2005
Looking for Fidel
2004 · Self (archive footage)
The Motorcycle Diaries
2004 · Novel
Comandante
2003 · Self (archive footage)
Che Guevara - Hasta La Victoria Siempre
2003
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
2003 · Self (archive footage)
Kubánske otázniky
2000 · archívne zábery
Nunca asistas a este tipo de fiestas
2000 · Thanks
El último panfleto
1995 · Self
Ernesto Che Guevara
1995 · Self(archive footage)
Ernesto Che Guevara, the Bolivian Diary
1994 · Self (archive footage)
Death Scenes 2
1992 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Parlez-moi du Che
1987 · Self (archive footage)
Che, Today and Always
1983 · Che Guevara
Constructor Cada Día, Compañero
1982 · Self
Una foto recorre el mundo
1981 · Self
ORG
1979 · Thanks
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
1974 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
History of Brazil
1974 · Self (archive)
About Extra Hours and Volunteer Work
1973 · Self (archive footage)
Che
1972
Report on Brazil: Carlos Marighella
1970 · Himself (archive footage)
Topaz
1969 · Self (archive footage)
The Hour of the Furnaces
1968 · Self (archive footage)
World in Action: End of a Revolution
1967
Hello Cubans
1963 · Self (uncredited)
Island Ablazed
1961 · Self
Che Guevara, les visages du Che
· Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
Un italiano per Fidel
Fidel Castro: We Shall Overcome!
Séries (7)
História do Comunismo
2024 · Self
The Century of Icons
2022 · Self (archive footage)
Infamous Assassinations
2012 · Self (archive footage)
La Case du Siècle
2010 · Self (archive footage)
Faith of the Century: A History of Communism
1999 · Self (archive footage)
Secret Lives
1995 · Self(archive footage)
World in Action
1963