Oliver Stone's controversial career

“Comandante” (2003)

Oliver Stone has always been obsessed with men in positions of power (the business titan of "Wall Street," the conspirators of "JFK," the flawed leader of "Nixon"), and in the documentary "Comandante," he spends three days sitting across from Cuba’s most powerful figure, Fidel Castro. Stone challenges Castro but also uses the conversation to revisit some of his favorite material (early on, Castro confesses that he believes there were multiple shooters on the day of John F. Kennedy's assassination).

Posing not just policy questions to the Cuban leader but also filming him in a sympathetic light, with son and grandson at his side, "Comandante" was Stone's attempt to identify and empathize with the man who had been demonized by the American government for over half a century.