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Americas in Transition

A concise and fast-paced history of the volatile forces at work in Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua in the 1980s.

Icarus Films | 1982 | 29 minutes

Denial

A long overdue investigation into the 1981 El Mozote massacre in El Salvador, and the Reagan administration's cover-up of it.

Icarus Films | 1995 | 57 minutes

Fly So Far

A grave warning of how far state control of women’s bodies can go, FLY SO FAR follows Teodora Vásquez, who was sentenced to thirty years in a Salvadorean prison after she suffered a stillbirth.

Women Make Movies | 2021 | 89 minutes

Four Paths to Dignity

Four Paths to Dignity profiles the pursuit of dignity for Guatemalan midwives.

EPF Media | 2022 | 28 minutes

In the Name of the People

An evocative vision of El Salvador and its tragic civil conflict.

Icarus Films | 1984 | 75 minutes

In Whose Interest?

A revealing critique of US foreign policy since World War II.

Bullfrog Films | 2002 | 27 minutes

Justice and the Generals

Investigates the human rights and legal issues involved when two Salvadoran generals are sued in an American court for atrocities (such as the murder of four American churchwomen) committed during El Salvador's civil war.

Icarus Films | 2002 | 86 minutes

Keepers of the Future

Following El Salvador's civil war, a farmers' cooperative puts down roots, builds resilience and provides a model of how to mitigate climate change and resist unsustainable, extractive development.

Bullfrog Films | 2018 | 24 minutes

The Room of Bones

Follows the passage of four mothers in the Institute for Legal Medicine as they search for their children’s remains in the midst of three decades of social violence in El Salvador.

Women Make Movies | 2015 | 61 minutes

Roque Dalton

It was once illegal to read books by Roque Dalton, one of El Salvador's most celebrated poets, in his own country.

Icarus Films | 2013 | 85 minutes