Breaking Chains
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Dec 8, 2016 (52 min)
After four centuries of Spanish colonial rule, Cubans win their independence, but U.S. intervention at the eleventh hour comes with a price.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Dec 8, 2016 (52 min)
After four centuries of Spanish colonial rule, Cubans win their independence, but U.S. intervention at the eleventh hour comes with a price.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Dec 8, 2016
Cuba flourishes thanks to sugar production, but relations with the U.S. deteriorate, leading to the rise of military strongman Fulgencio Batista.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Dec 8, 2016 (52 min)
A source of illegal rum during Prohibition, Cuba becomes a haven for the Mafia, which seizes control of the country's popular gambling industry.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Dec 8, 2016
On New Year's Day 1959, rebel guerillas led by the Castro brothers and Che Guevara succeed in toppling the corrupt, dictatorial rule of Batista.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Dec 8, 2016
Heroes of the revolution include the Castros, Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos, but Fidel Castro's brutality and radical leftist reforms divide them.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Dec 8, 2016
When Fidel Castro expropriates U.S. businesses and pursues support from the Soviet Union, the CIA sends assassins, saboteurs and invaders to Cuba.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Dec 8, 2016 (51 min)
Challenges mount in the '80s as Cubans desert their restrictive homeland, cocaine infiltrates the government, and European socialism collapses.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Dec 8, 2016 (52 min)
In the post-Soviet world, the Castros find mutual support in Venezuela, but the Cold War's conclusion brings the country's isolationism to an end.