Buena Vista Social Club was released in the year 1999。Buena Vista Social Club is also called as Ry Cooder & the Buena Vista Social Club, Havana Rhapsody。

A group of legendary Cuban musicians, some as old as their nineties, were brought together by Ry Cooder to record a CD. In this film, we see and hear some of the songs being recorded in Havana. There is also footage from concerts in Amsterdam and New York City's Carnegie Hall. In addition, many of the individual musicians talk about their lives in Cuba and about how they got started in music.