The Cuba Libre Story

2015 documentary series on Cuba

Emmanuel Amara
Kai Christiansen
Florian Dedio

No. of seasons1No. of episodes8 (list of episodes)ProductionExecutive producers

Gunnar Dedio
Grégory Schnebelen
Igor Prokopenko

Producers

Regina Bouchehri
Louis-David Delahaye
Birgit Rasch
Olga Zatulkina

Running time52 minutesProduction companyLOOKSfilmOriginal releaseNetworkNetflixReleaseDecember 8, 2016 (2016-12-08)

The Cuba Libre Story is a documentary series that portrays the history of Cuba from colonial times to 2015.^[1] The eight-part series was released on Netflix on December 11, 2015.^[2]

For The Cuba Libre Story, more than 50 international Cuba experts and contemporary witnesses were interviewed - both supporters and opponents of Fidel Castro and his predecessor Fulgencio Batista. Among them are Cuba's former intelligence chief Juan Antonio Rodríguez Menier and KGB Latin America chief Nikolai Leonov, Che Guevara's comrade Dariel Alarcón and CIA agent Félix Rodríguez, Fidel Castro's former lover Marita Lorenz and his former bodyguard Carlos Calvo, the stepdaughter of mafia boss Meyer Lansky, Cuba's famous novelist Leonardo Padura and the last Head of State of the GDR and personal friend of the Castro brothers, Egon Krenz.^[3]

Episodes

No.	Title	Original air date
1	"Breaking Chains"	December 11, 2015 (2015-12-11)
2	"War and Sugar"	December 11, 2015 (2015-12-11)
3	"Gangster's Paradise"	December 11, 2015 (2015-12-11)
4	"A Ragtag Revolution"	December 11, 2015 (2015-12-11)
5	"Making Heroes"	December 11, 2015 (2015-12-11)
6	"Of Soviets and Saviors"	December 11, 2015 (2015-12-11)
7	"Secrets and Sacrifices"	December 11, 2015 (2015-12-11)
8	"Moments of Transition"	December 11, 2015 (2015-12-11)

References

^ "The Cuba Libre Story". Netflix Media Center. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
^ "'The Cuba Libre Story' Leaving Netflix in December 2021". What's on Netflix. November 8, 2021.
^ "The Cuba Libre Story". LOOKSfilm. 11 December 2015. Retrieved 24 July 2019.