There was one quote that was explicitly homophobic. How and why did you choose that quote amongst all the others? and without any analysis. Overall, more depth please. We want more on the revolution.

A shallow doc. Questionable objectivity. Very little mention of the incredible accomplishment of near universal literacy and universal health care (with an infant mortality rate less than the US).

The poverty of the country is numerous times blamed on Castro and not the US embargo. No mention that Russia and the US agreed that in return for the USSR removing the missiles, the US would remove missiles from Turkey.

No mention of Cuba's offer of over a thousand doctors to help the US recover from Katrina (and the US's ignoring of the offer). No mention of Castro's deep personal friendship with Pierre Trudeau. (I would have expected to see the video footage of him consoling Margaret Trudeau at the funeral; or at least a mention of it.) No mention of how Cuba survived after the collapse of the USSR.

In general, there was very little shown of the Cuban perspective of the last 40 years in this doc.

While the vast majority of Cubans live in abject poverty, thanks largely to the ongoing U.S. embargo and the loss of subsidies due to the collapse of the "evil empire", it is interesting that Senor Castro and his cronies continue to live like Spanish Grandees complete with sumptuous villas and no shortage of material goods.

Mr. McKenna could have given us some footage of Castro's current lifestyle juxtaposed with scenes of average, struggling Cubans, tennis anyone?

i was disappointed after seeing it. but what can i say? many will agree it comes with the territory, so to speak. this type of docus can never satisfy anyone. too many questions are left unanswered. i remember a book or a phrase that says the camera never lies. well, in ths book, itself, it was clearly shown that the camera really lied not by what it had shown, but what it didn't. it was pure one-sided biased, selectivitiy. i think the money could have been better spent on feeding and clothing the poor.

Frankly, I was very disappointed in the doc., Castro, A Life of Revolution. I returned to Canada after a trip to Cuba (that included visits and discussions with teachers and professors in Havana and Matanzas), the day Fidel resigned and I watched the doc some days later.

This documentary was not only superficial in its examination, it was also biased, and even presented false information.

The people of Cuba have strongly opinionated political views and they voice them to anyone willing to listen. There's less of a gag order in Cuba than there is in Kennebunkport, Maine.

Also, as someone else pointed out, Cuba's literacy rate is higher than ours in Canada (ages 15-34). Their kids know how to add and subtract, too! They can find other countries on the map, unlike American high school grads! Oh, and they actually learn about other countries and study evolution in science! Now that's revolutionary by U.S. standards!

The hosipital Michael Moore visited in Havana for his doc., Sicko, runs like a well-oiled machine, and their health care system includes all medical, including care, drugs, vision AND dental. No mention of this in the film.

I felt safer walking on any street in Havana than I do in Manhatten, Philadelphia or Miami. No mention of the impressively low crime rates.

Yes, there is still rationing of food and gasoline (thanks U.S.). Yes, there are challenges with public transportation, roads and communications, although many of the highways are excellent. Yes, there is propaganda but don't all U.S. school history texts extol the virtues of the American revolutionaries? How about American patriots or freedom-fighters during the Revolutionary War? No parallels drawn in the documentary.

Is there not advertising propaganda everywhere we look today (billboards, buildings, moving signs)? There's not one billboard in Cuba promoting excessive consummerism propaganda. No one in Cuba believes Viagra is essential! There's not one billboard promoting brainless TV such as American Idol. However, with satellite TV available, Cubans can watch Canadian Idol if they want -- but they don't. No mention of the lack of consumer propaganda in the doc.

Fidel and company promote education, healthy & active living, and environmental sustainability (compact fluoerescent bulbs everywhere -- incandescents are now banned in stores -- ultra-low-flush toilets, air-conditioning sensors on sliding doors, windmill farms, and solar panels everywhere). No mention of this in the documentary.

As for poverty... Has anyone visited downtown Toronto lately? Last week I saw a homeless man approach a stretch limo on Lakeshore, only to be shooed away. Been to Detroit, Chicago, the South Bronx, South Central LA, and, oh yes, New Orleans lately? Poverty is rampant in the U.S. and far too familiar in Canada. If I were poor, I think I'd much prefer to be poor, but well-educated and healthy in Cuba, rather than in the U.S.

Castro's government opposes and discourages personal debt, while Canadian and American governments encourage banks and credit card companies to loan money to those who cannot possibly repay it. Then credit card companies practically act like loan sharks, charging consumers anywhere from 18% to 26% interest on credit card loans -- those people who who cannot afford any debt to begin with. No mention of this in the film.

Why didn't this documentary look at any of these issues? Like him or not, Fidel and Raul Castro -- and the people of Cuba -- faced enormous challenges and have succeeded in creating a country that the U.S. would do well to model. It's too bad the film's interviewers talked to bitter, whining, Miami emigres rather than everyday Cuban citizens who are proud of their accomplishments thus far.

Congratulation Mr. Terence McKenna! I was very impressed and pleased that I had a change to see "the other side" of Fidel, and Cuba's struggle brought upon largely by US embargo. US Administration wants to drowned every country in the world which is not adopting US style of "democracy".

I always saw Castro as heroic lieder, but the "Passionate Eye" reassured me that my opinion was correct.

Well done, and thank you CBC for giving us closer and unbiased look at this an many othere topics.