This DVD in my opinion was pretty good in the sense that it portrays Che Guevara as the man who he really was but I found that certain key acts of his life that were being explained in this DVD lacked the proper explenations and just leaves you wondering or wanting to further investigate the truth...
Que Paso Aqui?

the feeling i walked away from the film was that che was a martyr. martyr, someone who bears witness. unlike castro, unlike so many of the idealogues/revolutionaries who compromise after their success, che's lived his conviction to identify with the poor/oppressed, literally, to the end of his life. che's death was not a tragedy, but a beautiful testimony to faithfulness and steadfastness. and documentary let the story of che be told without getting in the way. good job.

Che Guevara is the ultimate hero's people... Why?? because nobody has lived a live like his and no one ever will, You will never see people around the world wearing a Bush t-shirt because he is no hero to nobody, he only serves the interests of the powerful and was born with power and bought his way to the top (That's why a college student with a "C" grade average is ruling the U.S.!!!)... in the other hand Che was always a free man and will live forever in the hearth of the truly free people of the world!!!
Che will outlive the imperialists pigs in the white house and the Gusanos in Florida!!!

The fog of time and the strength of anti-anti-Communism have obscured the real Che. Who was he? He was an Argentinian revolutionary who served as Castro's primary thug. He was especially infamous for presiding over summary executions at La Cabaña, the fortress that was his abattoir. He liked to administer the coup de grâce, the bullet to the back of the neck. And he loved to parade people past El Paredón, the reddened wall against which so many innocents were killed. Furthermore, he established the labor-camp system in which countless citizens--dissidents, democrats, artists, homosexuals--would suffer and die. This is the Cuban gulag. A Cuban-American writer, Humberto Fontova, described Guevara as "a combination of Beria and Himmler." Anthony Daniels once quipped, "The difference between [Guevara] and Pol Pot was that [the former] never studied in Paris." - Jay Nordlinger

The documentary film "El Che: Investigating a Legend" is an overview of Guevara's life. The film plots Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna's early life, includes rare footage of his middle-class childhood in Argentina, and charts his revolutionary career up to his death in Bolivia in 1967 at the age of 39. The documentary blends interviews, photo stills, music and narrative to create a fascinating picture of Che. These interviews include personal details and memories from family members, fellow guerilla fighters, political figures, and some footage includes speeches made by Che.

A fair portion of the documentary examines Che's childhood, and his struggle with asthma. This early exposure to disease, the film argues, led to Che's interest in medicine, and his determination to become a Dr. But Che left his entire medical career behind, and he was soon devoted to politics. From his youth, Che maintained the view that the "designated enemy is Imperialism." The film explores Che's political career, his friendship with Fidel Castro, his role in the guerilla war against the Batista government of Cuba, and Che's subsequent role in Castro's Cuban government. Che is shown to be an intelligent man, with an incredible amount of personal discipline. He was devoted to social reform, and possibly at his very best when he was a guerrilla fighter in the jungle--here he established literacy programmes, a radio station, and guerrilla training camps.

The latter part of the documentary--and arguably the most fascinating section--describes Che's role in the new Cuban government, and the portrait shown is a man still devoted to social revolution. But Che--although a Marxist--didn't appear to 'fit in' to the new Soviet-influenced Cuba, and this resulted in an odyssey for Che that ended with his death in Bolivia a few years later. There is one great scene of an empty chair next to Castro, and this was footage taken when many were speculating about Che's whereabouts. These final years and Che's death are clouded with different versions of events, but the true version of Che's death seems quite clear from the interviews in the documentary.

An extra feature included on the DVD is another short documentary, "Tracing Che" in which a filmmaker replicates Che's youthful travels on a motorcycle (now popularised by the film "Motorcycle Diaries"). The most interesting section of this short documentary occurs when Che's traveling companion is interviewed. The statements and interpretations he makes about Che are both insightful and profound--displacedhuman