Among the revelations in the Netflix original documentary CUBA AND THE CAMERAMAN is [Fidel] Castro himself – unguarded, off-the-cuff, and unedited. In their numerous on-camera interviews, the cigar-chomping revolutionary affectionately called the straight-shooting [Jon] Alpert "The Journalist," and showed a side of himself never seen publicly. Alpert was one of the last Americans to see Castro before his death.