7 Films & TV Shows Set In Nicaragua

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  Kill the Messenger

  🇳🇮 Nicaragua California District of Columbia The 1990s The 1980s

  Can you keep a national secret? — A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb.

  Released in 2014 • 112 minutes
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  Broadcast News

  District of Columbia 🇳🇮 Nicaragua The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s

  It’s the story of their lives. — Basket-case network news producer Jane Craig falls for new reporter Tom Grunnick, a pretty boy who represents the trend towards entertainment news she despises. Aaron Altman, a talented but plain correspondent, carries an unrequited torch for Jane. Sparks fly between the three as the network prepares for big changes, and both the news and Jane must decide between style and substance.

  Released in 1987 • 133 minutes
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  Walker

  🇳🇮 Nicaragua The 1850s

  Before Rambo... Before Oliver North... — William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.

  Released in 1987 • 94 minutes
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  Striker

  🇳🇮 Nicaragua

  Unpredictable. Unbeatable. The ultimate freedom fighter. — John Slade is hired to rescue a journalist named Frank Morris from a Sandinista prison in Nicaragua. He teams with Marta, a local woman, to carry out this mission, but then he's captured, tortured, and forced to deal with the fact that he's been betrayed.

  Released in 1987 • 90 minutes
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  Latino

  🇳🇮 Nicaragua The 1970s

  The fighting between the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and the Contra rebels backed by U.S. money and expertise is the focus of this pro-Sandinista film by Haskell Wexler. On a secret mission to help the U.S. Special Forces train Contra rebels in the jungles of Nicaragua, American soldier Eddie Guerrero begins to question the morality of the task at hand and consider how his actions may influence the fate of a nation.

  Released in 1985 • 108 minutes
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  Under Fire

  🇳🇮 Nicaragua The 1970s

  This wasn't their war but it was their story... and they wouldn't let it go! — Three U.S. journalists (Nick Nolte, Joanna Cassidy, Gene Hackman) get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.

  Released in 1983 • 128 minutes
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  Last Plane Out

  🇳🇮 Nicaragua

  An American journalist covering the civil war in Nicaragua falls in love with a beautiful Sandinista rebel.

  Released in 1983 • 92 minutes