This is the classic DVD that features aging singers of the classic Cuban period, performing incredibly under the direction of Wim Wenders. Ry Cooder initiated the project and contacts in the late '90s that led to this extraordinary musical documentary.

At one time, all the Cuban performers in this DVD played music or sang at a now defunct Havana night club, the Buena Vista Social Club. After it closed, many of them faded into obscurity, until Ry Cooder tracked them down.

If you haven't seen and listened to "Buena Vista Social Club," it's an absolute delight.

As the New Yorker noted when the film came out:

"In 1996, the blues guitarist Ry Cooder gathered together some wonderful Cuban musicians in their seventies and eighties for a successful recording project. Two years later, Cooder went back to Cuba, this time accompanied by cameras and the German director Wim Wenders, seeking out the men and women of Cuban music on the streets and in the old dance halls of Havana. In this beautiful city that got left behind by the global economy, the bedraggled stone buildings and pre-revolutionary Chevys and Dodges have aged into pure soulfulness. So have the musicians, who still look great, play beautifully, and exude a stirring seriousness and dignity. The movie comes closer to pure happiness than anything else in the theatres at the moment."

A DVD that you can watch again and again just for the soulful, Cuban music.