At the time that Fidel Castro led his revolution to victory and entered Havana with his troops, we had no idea what political course his regime would follow.
Filming was done in Cuba, and ended just the day before Fidel Castro entered Havana and declared the victory of the revolution.
Entering Havana, a town of 4,300, on Sunday, the signs were everywhere - at Hardee's, the Super Wash car wash, the Phillips 66.
His luxuriant red-and-white beard was an obvious revolutionary badge, as if he were the young Fidel about to enter Havana.
Cuban President Batista fled the capital when Fidel Castro and his guerrillas entered Havana on New Years Day 1959.
When Ita's forces moved in to block the galleons from entering Havana, they tried to flee.
The forces of Guevara and Cienfuegos entered Havana at about the same time.
Just fifteen days after its inauguration, on January 8, 1959, Fidel Castro entered Havana during the Cuban Revolution.
Cuba is poorer today than when Mr. Castro victoriously entered Havana in 1959 after six years of struggle.
President Batista ordered the university to be closed, and it remained so until Batista fled the country and Fidel Castro entered Havana in January 1959.