Fidel Castro documentary to air on US public TV

0 Comments | AFP, February, 2005

MIAMI (AFP) — Cuban President Fidel Castro, US nemesis for 40 years, returns to the US small screen in a public television documentary on his life.

Cuban-born documentary maker Adriana Bosch, who lives in Miami, has directed several biographies in the "American Experience" series, on former US presidents Ulysses Grant, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, as well as the Rockefeller family for the Public Broadcasting System, a privately funded provider of programs to local stations.

Her two-hour program is divided into two parts. One covers Castro's youth until the Cuban revolution and the Bay of Pigs invasion. The second covers the Cuban leader's life up to the present day.

"One of the great challenges in making this story was to try to capture a lifetime into a...