Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up?

Streaming video - 2010

Award-winning director Saul Landau embarks on an in-depth exploration of Miami-Havana politics through the story of the Cuban 5 -- a group of spies sent by the Castro government to infiltrate right-wing terrorist organizations in Miami.. WILL THE REAL TERRORIST PLEASE STAND UP? chronicles half a century of hostile US-Cuba relations, decades of assassinations and sabotage, at first backed up then ignored by the very government that launched a “war against terrorism.” In the film, viewers see leading terrorists, now in their 80s, recounting their deeds, and Cuban state security officials explaining why they infiltrated agents into violent Miami exile groups.. Featuring Danny Glover and 84-year-old Fidel Castro in key scenes, the film rais...es and tries to answer the question: what did Cuba do to deserve such hostile treatment? It traces key events from the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis, through multiple assassination attempts on Fidel Castro’s life. This documentary reveals a story of violence that also echoed on the streets of Washington DC, New York, and especially Miami where Cuban American critics of the bombers and shooters also wound up dead. more