Che: Rise & Fall is a documentary film created by Eduardo Montes-Bradley. The film was entirely shot in Cuba at the time Che Guevara’s remains were airlifted from Bolivia to Santa Clara, the final resting place. The documentary features the testimonies of Guevara’s comrades-in-arms in Sierra Maestra, Congo, and Bolivia, as well as Alberto Granado, with whom Guevara rode a motorcycle from Argentina on a trip that would end 16 years later in the jungles of Bolivia. This experience was brought to the big screen in The Motorcycle Diaries. Che's Rise and Fall begins with an account of Guevara's death in Bolivia in 1967 and fittingly ends with footage of the repatriation of his remains for interment in a monument in Santa Clara's Revolution Square some 30 years later.

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Che Rise & Fall explores an unorthodox approach to the myth of Guevara as a revolutionary icon. According to Lourdes Vázquez from Rutgers University Library, the film documents Guevara’s frustrated experience during the period spent fighting in Congo's Revolutionary War as well as his sense of failure. The documentary includes archival footage, photographs taken by Ernesto Guevara in Mexico, and images from the ceremony of Guevara’s remains being brought to Santa Clara.

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Che: Rise & Fall premiered on National Geographic Channel on June 14, 2007, and was released on DVD in the U.S., Germany, the United Kingdom, Portugal, and Spain.