Caribbean Arts, Theory, and Literature: Film & Sound Recordings

Caribbean Concertos by Ernesto Cordero

El Tambor de Cuba by Chano Pozo

Caribbean Area Smithsonian Folkways World Music Collection

Rough Guide to the Music of Cuba

Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall

La Butuba Cubana by Julio Cueva

Cuban Carnival by Tito Puente

Unfinished Spaces by directed and produced by Alysa Nahmias and Benjamin Murray Documentary film about the revolutionary design of the National Art Schools in Cuba. The film tells the dramatic story of the art schools from their founding by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara to their eventual abandonment and fall into ruin and recent efforts to restore them

The JVC/Smithsonian Folkways video anthology of music and dance of the Americas Volume 4 Music and dance of the Caribbean (Barbados, Cuba, Curacao & Bonaire, Dominica, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinigue, Puerto Rico, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Carnival)

Rumbon Tropical Dance of ellegua -- Rumba yambu -- Rumba guaguanco I -- Rumba columbia -- Abakua -- Interview -- Rumba guaguanco II -- Rap bata-songo -- Rumbon drama -- Slideshow.

Black in Latin America Disc 1: Haiti & Dominican Republic : an island divided / produced and directed by Ricardo Pollack ; Cuba: the next revolution / produced and directed by Diene Petterle

Bob Marley: Time Will Tell Bob Marley--rocker, visionary, poet, international icon of reggae and Rastafari--comes vividly to life as never before in this film jam-packed with concert performances, searing soundtracks, rare footage of Marley and the Wailers backstage, and much revealing commentary from Bob himself

Life and Debt by Stephanie Black, director; Jamaica Kincaid, writer & narrator Documentary look at the effects of globalization on Jamaican industry and agriculture.

Fresa y Chocolate by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío, based on the short story "The Wolf, The Forest and the New Man"

The Harder They Come The Harder They Come is a 1972 Jamaican crime film directed by Perry Henzell and co-written by Trevor D. Rhone, and starring Jimmy Cliff.

Memorias del Subdesarrollo by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea A study of Cuban society before and after the revolution as seen through the eyes of a Europeanized intellectual, a landlord and self-styled writer, who is too idealistic to leave for Miami but too decadent to fit into the new society.

Quién Diablos es Juliette? by Carlos Marcovich A look at the lives and thoughts of some young people in Havana in the 1990's as seen through the making of a film, "The story of Yuliet Ortega & Fabiola Quiroz, as filmed by Carlos Marcovich."

I am Cuba: the Ultimate Edition Mikhail Kalatozov and cinematographer Sergei Urusevsky's hybrid offspring of Soviet orthodoxy and Cuban tropicalismo, is a film of dazzling contrasts. In four intertwining stories of the revolution, Urusevsky's acrobatic camera takes the viewer on a dizzying ride through smoky nightclubs and rooftop pool parties, rickety shantytowns and rustling sugarcane fields, student protest rallies and remote guerilla outposts.