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Cuba: The Forgotten Revolution tells the virtually unknown story of Cuban revolutionaries Frank País and Jose Antonio Echeverría.

Working largely independently from each other, these young men—a school teacher and architecture student, respectively—played critical roles in the eventual overthrow of dictator Fulgencio Batista, although their names seldom appear alongside their more famous contemporaries, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.
Scholar Lillian Guerra explains: “It is as if we told the tale of the American Revolution as solely Washington’s story, leaving out Franklin, Jefferson, Adams and others.”

New scholarship and recently accessed footage challenge the prevailing view—in part manufactured and perpetuated by Che
Guevara—that Castro’s army of 200 guerrillas single-handedly defeated tens of thousands of Batista’s professional soldiers and liberated the people of Cuba. In fact, País and Echeverría’s
city-based insurgencies in Santiago and Havana held the key to generating popular support for undermining the authority of Batista and his secret police.

Both País and Echeverría rivaled Castro in popularity and power during the height of the Revolution yet neither man lived to see Batista defeated. País was gunned down in the street; Echeverría died in a daring raid on the palace. We will never know what Cuba
would have been like had they survived. This documentary highlights the complexities inherent in revolutions and examines the shaping and reshaping of the final historical record.

The film is narrated by Academy Award-winner Rita Moreno.

Support comes from the Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation, Inc., promoting and preserving the Arts and Humanities in Indiana.