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Showing 1 - 10 of 10 titles with a criteria of Subject is El Salvador


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

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

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

Scars of Memory

An oral history of the 1932 massacre of 10,000 El Salvadorans, a trauma that has resonated through six decades of military rule, until the 1992 peace accords ended a brutal, 12-year civil war.

Icarus Films | 2002 | 53 minutes

The Tiniest Place

The story of a small village in El Salvador, destroyed during the country's civil war, and its remarkable rebirth today.

Icarus Films | 2011 | 104 minutes