# 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.
* Batres García, Eugenio (2006). Impurezas de la Democracia: La Conspiración de la Izquierda Continental. HISPAMER. ISBN 99924-57-80-5.
* 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.
* Bermann, Karl (August 1986). Under the Big Stick: Nicaragua and the United States Since 1848. Compita. ISBN 0896083241.
* Brown, Timothy C. (2001). The Real Contra War: Highlander Peasant Resistance in Nicaragua. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-8061-3252-3.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* Rushdie, Salman (1987). The Jaguar Smile: a Nicaraguan Journey. Pan Books Ltd. ISBN 0-8050-5311-5.
* Schwartz, Stephen (1992). A Strange Silence: The Emergence of Democracy in Nicaragua. Institute for Contemporary Studies. ISBN 1-55815-071-4.
* Sierakowski, Robert (2019). Sandinistas: A Moral History. University of Notre Dame Press.
* Somoza, Anastasio; Cox, Jack (1980). Nicaragua Betrayed. Western Islands. ISBN 0-88279-235-0.
* 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.
* 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 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
* From the Ashes: Nicaragua Today by Helena Solberg