---
name: "Fidel Castro"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/fidel-castro"
fi1m_id: "fidel-castro"
imdb_id: "nm0004242"
tmdb_id: 115863
wikidata_id: "Q11256"
roles: []
born: "13 August 1926"
died: "25 November 2016"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-03T01:53:39.836198+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Fidel Castro

## Identity

Fidel Castro

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/fidel-castro
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** fidel-castro
- **IMDb ID:** nm0004242
- **TMDB ID:** 115863
- **Wikidata ID:** Q11256
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11256, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004242/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/115863

Actor. Born 13 August 1926 in Birán, Cuba. Died 25 November 2016.

## Details

- **Born:** 13 August 1926, Birán, Cuba
- **Died:** 25 November 2016
- **Also known as:** Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 84 (1), 2020s 80 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 82 to 81 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Documentary 3, History 1, Music 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $4m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11256, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004242/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/115863

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Fog of War*](https://film.one/film/the-fog-of-war.md) (84)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Becoming Cousteau* (2021), Fi1m 74, as Self (archive footage) — [page](https://film.one/film/becoming-cousteau.md)
- *Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)* (2021), Fi1m 87, as Self (archive footage) — [page](https://film.one/film/summer-of-soul-or-when-the-revolution-could-not-be-televised.md)
- *The Fog of War* (2003), Fi1m 84, as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-fog-of-war.md)

## Complete filmography (33)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Mário* (2024), Actor
- *The Queen and the Prime Ministers* (2024), as Sig selv (arkiv)
- *Castro's Revolution vs. The World* (2019), series, Actor
- *Che Guevara, naissance d'un mythe* (2017), Actor
- *Two Meetings and a Funeral* (2017), Actor
- *Cuba, l'histoire secrète* (2016), Actor
- *Celia - la más hermosa flor* (2015), Actor
- *Cuba, Batista et la mafia* (2012), as Fidel Castro
- *The Mayor* (2012), Actor
- *El día más largo* (2011), Actor
- *Kordavision: The man who shot Che Guevara* (2005), Actor
- *Che Guevara - Hasta La Victoria Siempre* (2003), Actor
- *Kubánske otázniky* (2000), as archívne zábery
- *Nixon* (1995), as (Archive footage)
- *Ernesto Che Guevara - Uomo, Compagno, Amico* (1995), Actor
- *The CIA's War Against Cuba* (1987), Actor
- *Chile: A Genral Record* (1986), Actor
- *Cuba: In the Shadow of Doubt* (1986), Actor
- *First Tuesday* (1983), series, Actor
- *Che, Today and Always* (1983), as Fidel Castro
- *La marcha del pueblo combatiente* (1980), Actor
- *A propósito de nuestra historia* (1980), as Archive
- *Compromiso con Chile* (1972), Actor
- *El Diálogo de América* (1972), as Él mismo
- *I Am a Son of America* (1972), as Él mismo
- *Cuba: Battle of the 10,000,000* (1971), Actor
- *World in Action: End of a Revolution* (1967), Actor
- *Primeros Juegos Deportivos Nacionales en Cuba (Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano)* (1965), Actor
- *Extra 1ero 26 de julio socialista (Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano, No. 60)* (1961), Actor
- *General Assembly* (1960), as Fidel Castro
- *Fidel Castro: We Shall Overcome!*, Actor
- *Fidel Castro no Rio de Janeiro, 1959*, Actor
- *Un italiano per Fidel*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Fidel Castro](https://film.one/media/person/98319/gallery-08dd87833d47.jpg) Fidel Castro — Unknown (Mondadori Publishers), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Fidel_Castro_1950s.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Ahmad Zaharudin Idrus bersama Fidel Castro, tahun 1990-an (2022)](https://film.one/media/person/98319/gallery-4254e2965f0c.jpg) Ahmad Zaharudin Idrus bersama Fidel Castro, tahun 1990-an (2022) — Lordwhiteheat, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Ahmad_Zaharudin_Idrus_bersama_Fidel_Castro%2C_tahun_1990-an.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Monument to Garibaldi at Italy Square, with graffiti. Buenos Aires, Argentina [Translation: Socialism or death. El Che lives. Endure you Fidel] (1994)](https://film.one/media/person/98319/gallery-8f5deaf314c2.jpg) Monument to Garibaldi at Italy Square, with graffiti. Buenos Aires, Argentina [Translation: Socialism or death. El Che lives. Endure you Fidel] (1994) — LBM1948, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Buenos_Aires%2C_Recoleta_1994_06.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Carta de reconocimiento que enviara el Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro Ruz en ocasión del 25 aniversario dela Revista 16 de abril (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/98319/gallery-93d36132fcd1.jpg) Carta de reconocimiento que enviara el Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro Ruz en ocasión del 25 aniversario dela Revista 16 de abril (2013) — Pavelpalacios, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Carta_de_Fidel_a_la_Revsita_16_de_abril.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Fidel Castro](https://film.one/media/person/98319/gallery-7cb1ece8b5de.jpg) Fidel Castro — Image via TMDB
- ![Fidel Castro](https://film.one/media/person/98319/gallery-bbdc07977c1a.jpg) Fidel Castro — Image via TMDB
- ![From left to Right : Presidencia Mirta Díaz-Balart, Luis Conde Aguero, Juyo del Valle, Luis Orlando-Rodriguez, Dr. Rodolfo Agraurute (1953)](https://film.one/media/person/98319/gallery-cf811686e701.jpg) From left to Right : Presidencia Mirta Díaz-Balart, Luis Conde Aguero, Juyo del Valle, Luis Orlando-Rodriguez, Dr. Rodolfo Agraurute (1953) — Foto Alburquerque, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Cubano_Independencia_Economica_Libertad_Politica_Justicia_Social_1953.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Председатель Государственной Думы Вячеслав Володин. (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/98319/gallery-c6dd960013f0.jpg) Председатель Государственной Думы Вячеслав Володин. (2017) — Марат Абулхатин/Фотослужба Государственной Думы, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Exhibition_on_70th_anniversary_of_Gennady_Seleznyov_07.jpg/1280px-Exhibition_on_70th_anniversary_of_Gennady_Seleznyov_07.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 37 won

- Confucius Peace Prize 2014: Confucius Peace Prize (won)
- Order of Merit, 1st class 2010: Order of Merit, 1st class (won)
- Order of Timor-Leste 2010: Order of Timor-Leste (won)
- Order of Omar Torrijos Herrera 2009: Order of Omar Torrijos Herrera (won)
- Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo 2009: Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo (won)
- Order of the Quetzal 2009: Order of the Quetzal (won)
- Order of the Crown of the Realm 2001: Order of the Crown of the Realm (won)
- Emblem of the Republic 2000: Emblem of the Republic (won)
- Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 1st class 2000: Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 1st class (won)
- Order of the Liberator 2000: Order of the Liberator (won)
- Order of Belize 1999: Order of Belize (won)
- Grand Collar of the Order of Good Hope 1998: Grand Collar of the Order of Good Hope (won)
- Grand Cross of the National Order of Mali 1998: Grand Cross of the National Order of Mali (won)
- Order of Merit of Duarte, Sanchez and Mella 1998: Order of Merit of Duarte, Sanchez and Mella (won)
- Order of Agostinho Neto 1992: Order of Agostinho Neto (won)
- Order of Hồ Chí Minh 1989: Order of Hồ Chí Minh (won)
- Grand Cross of the Order of the Aztec Eagle 1988: Grand Cross of the Order of the Aztec Eagle (won)
- Order of Eduardo Mondlane, 1st class 1988: Order of Eduardo Mondlane, 1st class (won)
- Order of Karl Marx 1986: Order of Karl Marx (won)
- Order of Klement Gottwald 1986: Order of Klement Gottwald (won)
- Order of Lenin 1986: Order of Lenin (won)
- Order of the Yugoslavian Great Star 1986: Order of the Yugoslavian Great Star (won)
- Order of Jamaica 1977: Order of Jamaica (won)
- Order of Merit 1977: Order of Merit (won)
- Order of the October Revolution 1976: Order of the October Revolution (won)
- Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" 1975: Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (won)
- Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta 1973: Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (won)
- Collar of the Order of the White Lion 1972: Collar of the Order of the White Lion (won)
- Grand Star of People's Friendship 1972: Grand Star of People's Friendship (won)
- Order of Georgi Dimitrov 1972: Order of Georgi Dimitrov (won)
- Order of Lenin 1972: Order of Lenin (won)
- Star of the Socialist Republic of Romania 1972: Star of the Socialist Republic of Romania (won)
- Hero of the Soviet Union 1963: Hero of the Soviet Union (won)
- Order of Lenin 1963: Order of Lenin (won)
- Lenin Peace Prize 1961: Lenin Peace Prize (won)
- Bintang Mahaputera Adipurna 1960: Bintang Mahaputera Adipurna (won)
- Order of the Nile 1959: Order of the Nile (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

---
© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/fidel-castro