Product Details

• Actors: Peter Graves, Jack Perkins
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: A & E Home Video
• VHS Release Date: February 7, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 076701250X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #552,042 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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One of the most prominent revolutionaries of the 20th Century, he was a pivotal figure in the creation of Castro's Cuba. His death at the hands of Bolivian security forces in 1967 made him a martyr. Che Guevara came from a middle class Argentine family. As a young man, he traveled across South America, where he was exposed to poverty, injustice and oppression that determined the course of his life.BIOGRAPHY® uses rare home movie footage, news coverage of the events in which he was involved and the testimony of experts to go beyond the myth and expose the man who, since his death, has become an icon. See how his time in Guatemala cemented his political views, and trace his role in Castro's revolution and government. Explore his writings, including the hugely influential manual for guerilla warfare, and follow his secret missions into Africa and Bolivia, where he was ultimately executed at the age of 39. From die-hard revolutionary to international martyr, this is the story of Che Guevara.

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars very good overview of che's life, July 17, 2000

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Arilitt "Chris Skabla" (bensalem, pa USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Che Guevara: Restless Revolutionary (A&E's Biography) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

now when i bought this video i was under the impression that it was a regular documentary of che's life. its the A and E biography of che's life. so dont expect an hour and a half or two hours of che. its a 50 minute biography. its a very good biography like all A and E biographies are, but its nothing more than that.

6 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Too simplistic, April 12, 2001

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Jose Rodriguez (Miami, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Che Guevara: Restless Revolutionary (A&E's Biography) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This video while it has its merits, lacks the thoroughness of a real docu-biography. It completely skips the Arbenz experiment in Guatemala. It does not detail the atrocities of the United Fruit Company and the U.S. in seizing over 70% of Guatemalan farmland from the indigenous people even though the United Fruit Monopoly was using 40% of this territory leaving the rest untilled. United Fruit Co. desired to keep the peasants off the land so they will not compete with them in the fruit business or any other firm.Check this poem out by the classic and canonical writer/poet Pablo Neruda:

The United Fruit Co.

When the trumpet sounded, everything was prepared on earth, and Jehovah gave the world to Coca-Cola Inc., Anaconda, Ford Motors, and other corporations. The United Fruit Company reserved for itself the most juicy piece, the central coast of my world, the delicate waste of America

It rebaptized these countries Banana Republics, and over the sleeping dead, over the unquiet heroes who won greatness, liberty, and banners, it established an opera buffa: it abolished free will, gave out imperial crowns, encouraged envy, attracted the dictatorship of flies.

Trujillo flies, Tachos flies Carias flies, Martinez flies, Ubico flies, flies sticky with submissive blood and marmalade, drunken flies that buzz over the tombs of the people circus flies, wise flies expert at tyranny

With the bloodthirsty flies came the Fruit Company,

amassed coffee and fruit in ships which put to sea like overloaded trays with the treasures from our sunken lands.

Meanwhile the Indians fall into the angry depths of the harbors and are buried in the morning mists, a corpse rolls, a thing without name, a discarded number, a bunch of rotten fruit thrown on the garbage heap.

Millions for defense but not one penny for tribute!!
Cuba is not Guatemala!!...