My Brother Fidel (Santiago Alvarez, Cuba, 1977, 15 mins): Eighty-two years after José Martí and Máximo Gómez landed in the village of Playitas to begin the War of Independence (1895), Fidel Castro interviewed the farmer Salustiano Leyva who, as a child, witnessed that historic moment. The Most Holy Brotherhood (Gabriela Samper, Colombia, 1970, 12 mins): In this haunting ethnographic documentary, the leader of a religious sect, whose members must cover the entire left side of their bodies as a safeguard against evil, inveighs against the ills of the world. The Cross of Gil (Victor Benitez, Argentina, 1985, 24 mins): A look at an idiosyncratic folk cult, the incongruous but contagious hero-worship of one Antonio Gil, a nineteenth century bandit whose interest derives from the fact that he is an unlikely hero. Barbosa (Jorge Furtado/Ana Luiza Azevedo, Brazil, 1988, 13 mins): In a skillful Zelig-like fiction, the protagonist seeks to re-write (and right) history by intercepting a goal that lost Brazil its bid for the 1950 World Soccer Championship. History may be continuous, in a way that gives new meaning to the term "continuity editing," but the fantasy of righting it gives way to disillusion. Holy Father and Gloria (Estela Bravo, Chile, 1987, 43 mins): The visit by Pope John Paul to Chile under Pinochet and the return home, that same week, of eighteen-year-old Carmen Gloria Quintana, who barely survived torture by the regime, are juxtaposed and, later, converge as the two meet. Bravo's documentary, with its trademark on-the-street interviews, skillfully shows how both figures provide space for the public expression of long-suppressed political emotions and aspirations.