Topic: Salvadoran Civil War

Direction Everardo González

Plot First came the word, then the assassin's bullet, then the silence. This strong documentary by Everardo González about Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, the voice of the voiceless in El Salvador,...

Direction Luis Mandoki

Cast Leonor Varela · Carlos Padilla · Ofelia Medina · José María Yazpik

Plot Weakened by two years of fighting, the army of El Salvador has been forced to replenish its ranks with the nation’s young sons, most of whom are kidnapped in sudden...

Direction Oliver Stone

Cast James Woods · John Savage · James Belushi · Michael Murphy

Plot A journalist, down on his luck in the US, drives to El Salvador to chronicle the events of the 1980 military dictatorship, including the assasination of Archbishop Oscar Romero. He...

Direction Gerardo Muyshondt · Carlos Moreno

Direction John Duigan

Cast Raul Julia · Richard Jordan · Ana Alicia · Eddie Velez

Plot The life and work of Archbishop Oscar Romero who opposed, at great personal risk, the tyrannical repression in El Salvador.

Direction Imanol Uribe

Cast Juana Acosta · Karra Elejalde · Carmelo Gómez · Angel Bonanni

Direction Roberto Davila Alegria

Cast Arturo Rivera · Nilson Urbina · Alejandro López · Karen Gomez

Direction Deborah Shaffer

Cast Charlie Clements

Plot Charlie Clements, who left the U.S. Air Force in 1970 after refusing to fly any more combat missions in Vietnam, discusses his gradual shift from a military background to being...

Direction Joan López Lloret

Plot Ana Lilian, Ricardo and Blanca tell about their lives from the moment in which they became missing kids of the Salvador War until present days.

Direction Jamie Moffett

Cast Martin Sheen

Plot 17 years ago, U.N. peace accords marked the end of a brutal civil war in El Salvador. This film is the compelling story of vibrant Salvadoran individuals and communities and...

Direction Pamela Cohen · Monona Wali

Plot It is El Salvador, 1989, three years before the end of a brutal civil war that took 75,000 lives. Maria Serrano, wife, mother, and guerrilla leader is on the frontlines...

Direction Allan Francovich

Plot A powerful three-part documentary studying the US involvement in Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. The differing factions - Sandinista leaders, Guatemalan campesinos, CIA operatives, Contras and US government apologists -...

Direction Reed Paget

Direction Ana Carrigan · Bernard Stone

Plot The film begins with the exhumation of four American women tortured, raped, and murdered by the right-wing government of El Salvador on December 2, 1980. The women -- Dorothy Kazel,...

Direction Larry Mosqueda · Ron Smith

Cast Howard Zinn

Direction Diego de la Texera

Plot The battle of El Salvador and its revolutionary history, from the times of the Spanish conquest and colonization, to the insurgency of the 80's, approached by a Puerto Rican filmmaker...

Direction Baltazar Lopez

Cast Oscar Suncín · Sofía Pérez Ortiz · Leandro Sánchez · Mónica Aguilar

Plot Professor Carlos Mauricio finds himself persecuted by government death squads during the Salvadoran Civil War.