List of books and films about Nicaragua

This is a list of books and films about Nicaragua.

Books

Non-fiction

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

Fiction

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

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]
• Sandinistas–Contras
  conflict. (Fictional, but highly political)
• Nicaragua: A Nation's Right to Survive [1] 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
• Miguel Littín
• Kill the Messenger (2014 film) by Michael Cuesta
• From the Ashes: Nicaragua Today by Helena Solberg