List of books and films about Nicaragua explained

This is a list of books and films about Nicaragua.

Books

Non-fiction

• Book: Asleson, Vern P. . Nicaragua: Those Passed By . Galde Press . 2004 . 1-931942-16-1 .
• Book: Batres García, Eugenio . Impurezas de la Democracia: La Conspiración de la Izquierda Continental . HISPAMER . 2006 . 99924-57-80-5 .
• Book: Belli, Gioconda . Gioconda Belli . The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War . Anchor . 2003 .
• Book: Belli, Humberto . Breaking Faith: The Sandinista Revolution and Its Impact on Freedom and Christian Faith in Nicaragua . The Puebla Institute . 1985 . 0-89107-359-0 .
• Book: Bermann, Karl . Under the Big Stick: Nicaragua and the United States Since 1848 . Compita . August 1986 . 0896083241 .
• Book: Brown, Timothy C. . The Real Contra War: Highlander Peasant Resistance in Nicaragua . University of Oklahoma Press . 2001 . 0-8061-3252-3 .
• Book: Davis, Peter . Where is Nicaragua? . Simon and Schuster . New York . 1987 .
• Book: de Belausteguigoitia, Ramón . Con Sandino en Nicaragua: la hora de la paz . Editorial Nueva Nicaragua . Managua, Nicaragua . 1981 .
• Book: Dunbar Ortiz, Roxanne . The Miskito Indians of Nicaragua (The Minority Rights Group Report, No. 79.) . 1988 . 0-946690-59-6 .
• Book: Dye . David R. . Spence . Jack . Vickers . George . Patchwork democracy: Nicaraguan politics ten years after the fall . 2000 . Hemisphere Initiatives . Cambridge, Massachusetts .
• Book: Gambone, Michael D. . Capturing the Revolution: The United States, Central America, and Nicaragua, 1961-1972 . Praeger Publishers . 2001 .
• Book: Gutman, Roy . Banana Diplomacy: The Making of American Policy in Nicaragua 1981-1987 . Touchstone Books . 1989 .
• Book: Hendrix, Steven E. . The New Nicaragua: Lessons in Development, Democracy, and Nation-Building for the United States . Praeger . 2009 .
• Book: Kinzer, Stephen . Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua . The Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College . 2007 . 978-0-674-02593-6 .
• Book: Kruckewitt, Joan . Joan Kruckewitt. . . 2001 .
• Book: Lancaster, Roger N. . Life is Hard: Machismo, Danger, and the Intimacy of Power in Nicaragua . registration . University of California Press . 1994 .
• Book: Rezac Andersen, Sharon . The Burden of Knowing: A journey, a friendship, and the power of truth in Nicaragua . Sep 15, 2012 .
• Book: Rushdie, Salman . Salman Rushdie . The Jaguar Smile: a Nicaraguan Journey . Pan Books Ltd . 1987 . 0-8050-5311-5 .
• Book: Schwartz, Stephen . A Strange Silence: The Emergence of Democracy in Nicaragua . Institute for Contemporary Studies . 1992 . 1-55815-071-4 .
• Book: Sierakowski, Robert . Sandinistas: A Moral History . University of Notre Dame Press . 2019.
• Book: Anastasio Somoza Debayle . Somoza . Anastasio . Cox . Jack . . 1980 . Western Islands . 0-88279-235-0 .
• Book: Walker, Thomas W. . Nicaragua . Westview Press . 2003 .
• Book: Walker . Thomas W. . Wade . Christine J. . Nicaragua: Living in the Shadow of the Eagle . Jan 4, 2011 .
• Book: Webb, Gary . Gary Webb. Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion . registration .
• Book: Wilm, Johannes . Nicaragua, back from the dead?: an anthropological view of the Sandinista movement in the early 21st century . New Left Notes . Oslo, Norway . 2011 .
• Book: Zimmermann, Matilde . Matilde Zimmermann . Sandinista: Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution . Duke University Press . 2001 .

Fiction

• Book: Ramírez, Sergio . Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea . Santillana USA . 2005 .
• Book: Serrano, Nina . Nicaragua Way . Estuary Press . 2016 .
• Book: Sirias, Silvio . Bernardo and the Virgin: A Novel . Northwestern University Press . 2005 .
• Book: Sirias, Silvio . Meet Me Under the Ceiba . Arte Publico Press . 2009 .

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)
• Back from Nicaragua A 1984 film by Julio Emilio Moliné featuring Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, and Holly Near.^[1]
• Carla's Song A film about the Sandinistas–Contras conflict. (Fictional, but highly political)
• Nicaragua: A Nation's Right to Survive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJWNof0e2TM 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 about the last days of Somoza's rule.
• The Mosquito Coast by Peter Weir
• Sandino (1990) by Miguel Littín
• Kill the Messenger (2014 film) by Michael Cuesta
• by Helena Solberg

See also

• Bibliography of Nicaragua
• List of Nicaraguan films

Notes and References

1. News: Anti-war films to debut . 21 July 2021 . The Santa Rosa Press Democrat . 22 September 1985.