The short film El primer delegado (The First Delegate), made by a group of ICAIC directors, recounts the moments in which José Martí announced the foundations and statutes of the Cuban Revolutionary Party, the tireless struggle that the hero sustained throughout his life to obtain independence, his gifts as a political organizer, the final founding of the party, of which he was the first delegate, and his offer to General Máximo Gómez of the military leadership of the insurrection, the final founding of the party, of which he was the first delegate, and his offer to General Máximo Gómez of the military leadership of the insurrection, all narrated live by an announcer who entertains with his reading the work of the cigar makers in a tobacco factory, until the documentary reaches its final climax: the symbolic reconversion of the old Marti's party into a new one.

Documentary film on the end of the Vietnam War, the fall of Saigon and the departure of American troops, as well as a tracing of 4000 years of Vietnamese culture.

Cerro Pelado toma su título del nombre del barco que trasladó a los deportistas cubanos a los décimos Juegos Centroamericanos y del Caribe, celebrados en 1966 en San Juan, Puerto Rico. Al tratarse de una colonia norteamericana, Estados Unidos intentó evitar la participación de la delegación cubana.

古巴宣传电影制片人圣地亚哥·阿尔瓦雷斯在菲德尔·卡斯特罗本人的特别要求下，于切·格瓦拉牺牲后的48小时内制作了这部纪录片。

Cuban filmmaker Santiago Alvarez's hurried response to the 1973 Chilean coup d'état rests upon the music of Victor Jara, the folk singer who was brutally murdered within days after Augusto Pinochet assumed power. Connecting events in Chile to other repressive police crackdowns throughout the world (and specifically to C.I.A. malfeasance), Alvarez calls for solidarity in a characteristically bravura choreography of text and image.

《飓风》是已故古巴纪录片导演阿尔瓦雷兹（1919-1998）的早期作品之一，也是古巴历史上首部获得国际声誉的影片，它真实记载了1963年弗洛拉飓风经过古巴时的巨大破坏力和古巴人民为对抗自然灾害而做出的伟大牺牲，当年那场飓风在不到10天内横扫加勒比海各国，在古巴停留的5天里制造了2600mm的降雨量，导致近2000人死亡，再加上60年代的古巴正遭受着西方经济制裁，内忧外患和自然天灾却无法阻止人们互相帮助重建家园的决心。阿尔瓦雷兹以纪录片导演和新闻记者的勇气拿起摄影机拍摄下飓风的恐怖模样，以现场的真实录音让观者重返那个艰难的时刻。本片在拉美第三世界纪录电影史上的位置犹如Agnes Varda和Joris Ivens的作品于欧洲纪录片一样重要。

越战newsreel shorts Alvarez shows no mercy in skewering Lyndon B. Johnson using old movie clips and cartoons to parody his cowboy image. He also employs an inventive, audacious formal structure in which he implicates the former president in the murders of Martin Luther King

In December 1967, a Cuban film crew led by Santiago Alvarez, the veteran polemicist, travelled to Hanoi. They shot the footage which constitutes this short documentary all in one day - Tuesday 13. The film is the story of that day and what happened to the North Vietnamese people in the course of it.

This film memorializes the leader of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, on the occasion of his death. It narrates the story of a life which is also the story of a nation-recounting his important accomplishments in the struggle against colonialism and imperialism.

1965 film directed by Santiago Álvarez