Victory is your duty : boxing as a policy tool in Cuba / WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)

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For decades, boxing has held a special place of honor in Cuban society-not least because Fidel Castro deployed the nation's athletes as an unconventional tool of foreign and domestic policy. This Wide Angle report goes inside the Havana Boxing Academy-the first time a foreign film crew has been perm...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase
WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2007], ©2007.
Series:Films on Demand.
Subjects:
Latin America > Social life and customs.
Cuba > History.
Cuba > Social life and customs.
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Genre:
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Films On Demand @ Infobase)
Physical Description:1 online resource (57 min.) : sound, color, digital file.
Variant Title:
Boxing as a policy tool in Cuba
Format: Electronic Video
Contents:
  • The Havana Boxing Academy (2:21)
  • A Young Athlete at the Havana Boxing Academy (2:40)
  • Pressure to Win at the Havana Boxing Academy (1:53)
  • Coaching at the Havana Boxing Academy (1:28)
  • Living and Training at the Havana Boxing Academy (2:13)
  • Young Cuban Athletes Celebrate Castro's Birthday (2:25)
  • A Young Cuban Boxer Visits His Family (2:16)
  • Poverty and Pressure to Become a Champion (2:00)
  • A Young Boxer Wants to Quit (3:15)
  • When Cuban Boxers Defect (2:50)
  • Fidel Castro's Achievements: Health and Education (1:52)
  • Training Intensifies at the Havana Boxing Academy (2:00)
  • The Havana Boxing Academy: Fighting to Make the Team (2:28)
  • The Havana Boxing Academy: Hard Choices and Emotional Goodbyes (2:25)
  • The Havana Boxing Academy's Rivals (2:20)
  • Young Cuban Boxers Prepare to Fight (2:29)
  • The Havana Boxing Academy Competes for Cuba's National Championship (3:00)
  • The Havana Boxing Academy Wins a National Championship (5:42)
  • Cuba's Socialist Revolution (2:55)
  • Cuba's Future After Fidel Castro (4:30)