List of books and films about Nicaragua

This is a list of films, books, etc. about Nicaragua.

Books

Non fiction

• The Jaguar Smile; a Nicaraguan Journey, Salman Rushdie, Pan Books Ltd, 1987. ISBN 0-8050-5311-5
• Sandinista: Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution, Matilde Zimmermann, Duke University Press, 2001
• The Life and Death Of Ben Linder, Joan Kruckewitt, Seven Stories Press, 2001
• Nicaragua, Thomas W. Walker, Westview Press, 2003
• Nicaragua: Those Passed By, Vern P. Asleson, Galde Press ISBN 1-931942-16-1, 2004
• The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War, Gioconda Belli, Anchor, 2003
• Breaking Faith: The Sandinista Revolution and Its Impact on Freedom and Christian Faith in Nicaragua, Humberto Belli, The Puebla Institute, 1985. ISBN 0-89107-359-0
• Dark Alliance : The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion by Gary Webb
• Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua, Stephen Kinzer, The Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College, 2007. ISBN 978-0-674-02593-6
• Nicaragua, back from the dead? : an anthropological view of the Sandinista movement in the early 21st century, Johannes Wilm. Oslo, Norway : New Left Notes, c2011.
• Impurezas de la Democracia: La Conspiración de la Izquierda Continental, Eugenio Batres García, HISPAMER, 2006. ISBN 99924-57-80-5
• Con Sandino en Nicaragua : la hora de la paz, Ramón de Belausteguigoitia. Managua, Nicaragua : Editorial Nueva Nicaragua, 1981.
• Where is Nicaragua? Peter Davis. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1987.
• Life is Hard: Machismo, Danger, and the Intimacy of Power in Nicaragua, Roger N. Lancaster. University of California Press, 1994.
• Capturing the Revolution: The United States, Central America, and Nicaragua, 1961-1972, Michael D. Gambone, Praeger Publishers, 2001.
• Banana Diplomacy: The Making of American Policy in Nicaragua 1981-1987, Roy Gutman. Touchstone Books, 1989.
• Patchwork democracy : Nicaraguan politics ten years after the fall. David R. Dye with Jack Spence and George Vickers. Cambridge, MA : Hemisphere Initiatives, 2000.
• A Strange Silence: The Emergence of Democracy in Nicaragua, Stephen Schwartz, Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1992. ISBN 1-55815-071-4
• The Miskito Indians of Nicaragua, The Minority Rights Group, Report No. 79. ISBN 0-946690-59-6
• The Real Contra War: Highlander Peasant Resistance in Nicaragua, Timothy C. Brown, University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8061-3252-3
• The New Nicaragua: Lessons in Development, Democracy, and Nation-Building for the United States, Steven E. Hendrix. Praeger, 2009.
• Nicaragua: Living in the Shadow of the Eagle by Thomas W. Walker and Christine J. Wade (Jan 4, 2011)
• The Burden of Knowing: A journey, a friendship, and the power of truth in Nicaragua by Sharon Rezac Andersen (Sep 15, 2012)
• Under the Big Stick: Nicaragua and the United States Since 1848 by Karl Bermann. Compita (August 1986). ISBN 0896083241,

ISBN 978-0896083240

Fiction

• Bernardo and the Virgin: A Novel, Silvio Sirias, Northwestern University Press, 2005
• Meet Me Under the Ceiba, Silvio Sirias, Arte Publico Press, 2009
• Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea, Sergio Ramírez, Santillana USA, 2005

Films

• Walker A film about William Walker, a 19th-century soldier of fortune and ruler of Nicaragua.
• Under Fire A film about the last days of Somoza's rule. (Fictional story)
• Carla's Song A film about the Sandinistas-Contras conflict. (Fictional, but highly political)
• Nicaragua: A Nation's Right to Survive A 1983 television documentary by John Pilger.
• Nicaragua Was Our Home A documentary about repression of the Miskito Indians.
• Pictures from a Revolution A 1991 documentary in which Susan Meiselas returns to Nicaragua to seek out the people and places she'd photographed there in 1979, during the revolution.
• Que viva Mauricio Demierre/Y también la revolucion A 2006 documentary by Stéphane Goël about a Swiss cooperant who was murdered by the contras during the revolution.
• Last Plane Out 1983 film portraying Anastasio Somoza Debayle in a positive light.
• The Mosquito Coast by Peter Weir
• .Sandino (1990) by Miguel Littin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY0xQCp8Kjw

See also

• Bibliography of Nicaragua
• List of Nicaraguan films

References