Nicaragua

Carla’s Song (United Kingdom), 1996.
Political drama about the Sandinistas-Contras conflict in the 1980s.

Nicaragua innovando — Innovating Nicaragua (Nicaragua), 1986.
Describes, through interviews with the Nicaraguan people, how, since the Sandinista revolution in 1979, the Nicaraguan economy is being improved little by little by means of various economic and technological innovations, and what further improvements need to be made, given the circumstances such as, for example, the war against the Contras.

Pictures from a Revolution (United States), 1983.
Filmmaker returns to Nicaragua in 1991 to seek out the people and placed she had photographed there in 1979 during the Sandinista revolution.

Under Fire (United States), 1983.
Fictional drama about the last days of the Somoza government before the Sandinistas take power in 1979.

Qué viva Mauricio Demierre y también La revolución (Switzerland), 2006.
In 1982 Maurice Demierre, an agriculturist from Gruyère, and his partner Chantal Bianchi left for Nicaragua, just as hundreds of other young Europeans who were fascinated by the revolution. But on 16 February 1986 Maurice was ambushed by the Contras and killed. He became a martyr, and Chantal Bianchi unwillingly became a symbol of the revolution. 20 years later, now an actress and director of a theatre troupe, she returns to her past and gets in touch with old comrades. Her plan: to enact a theatre piece on Maurice Demierre’s grave in Nicaragua. 

Walker (United States), 1987.
Post-modernist historical drama about William Walker, a nineteenth-century soldier of fortune and ruler of Nicaragua.