Central America Movies

January 22, 1932. An unprecedented peasant uprising erupts in western El Salvador, as a group of Latino and indigenous peasants cut army supply...

A Central American revolutionary is captured and tortured by government forces. He escapes and flees to the US, hiding out in a rural area where he...

MAXIMÓN - Devil or Saint is a documentary about the controversial Maya deity, also known as San Simon or the drinking and smoking saint of...

A documentary on the war between the Guatemalan military and the Mayan population, with first hand accounts by Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta...

Filmed in IMAX, a young Mayan boy who lives close to the ruins becomes acquainted with an archaeologist (Guerra) and asks her to tell him about his...

Prepare to get tangled in the jungles of Belize when an arms smuggler loses her partner in a deadly shootout and finds herself on the run in the...

When the revolution in Nicaragua won its victory nearly 40 years ago, the world began to dream. A young generation was taking the reins in a country...

1645. Guadeloupe. Ibátali, a Kalinago native and wife of a French colonist, leads Olaudah, an escaped African captive, on a journey where he...

Costa Rica's motto is Pura Vida - Pure Life - and this deceptively small country is bursting with some of the most spectacular wildlife and pristine...

A man murders the person who killed his wife, so he flees to Central America, where he finds love again.

Pop singer Lu, who's touring Central America, her sleazy manager Harold, a rugged boat captain and their guide, Sam, and Sam's girl Brandy, are...

This FitzPatrick Traveltalk short visits Guatemala City, touching upon its sights, customs, and history.

A propaganda short commissioned by the United Fruit Company on the benefits they bring to Central America, such as creating jobs and delivering...

This is the story of a tiny country that made a decision to do something that no other country had ever done -- it decided to abolish its army and...

A story of destinies joined by Guatemala's past, and how a documentary film intertwined with a nation's turbulent history emerges as an active player...

In late 1980, the bodies of four American women were exhumed from a crude grave in El Salvador. The women - Ita Ford and Maura Clarke, nuns of the...

Moonshadows (Contras), Master Backup How right wing Central American immigrants in the Bay Area have formed a coalition with Eldridge Cleaver, the...