Na selva costariquenha, um grupo de voluntários trabalha em uma companhia de petróleo. No entanto, uma torre de perfuração é incendiada, ameaçando incinerar toda a região. A solução é mandar um grupo de homens para o local com um carregamento de explosivos para conter o fogo. Liderados por Jackie Scanlon (Roy Scheider), o grupo terá de transportar os explosivos por mais de 200 milhas, em território selvagem, utilizando dois caminhões velhos. Refilmagem do filme francês "Salário do Medo (1953)".

Sex, politics and American culture are mixed into a combustible combination in Now & Later. Angela is an illegal Latina immigrant living in Los Angeles who stumbles across Bill, a disgraced banker on the run. She takes him in. Through passionate sex, soul-searching conversations ranging from politics to philosophy, and other worldly pleasures, Angela introduces Bill to another worldview. As their affair heats up, the course of Bill's life begins to take an abrupt and unexpected turn.

Situada na Nicarágua em 1984, a história de paixão, medo e traição conta a voz de uma americana cuja missão na América Central é tão sombria quanto o ambiente.

Russell Price é um atirado fotógrafo de reportagens que se vê em um dilema entre seu amor pela repórter Claire Stryder e sua amizade pelo marido dela, Alex Grazier. Ele também é torturado pelas incertezas de que caminho seguir quando lhe pedem que tome partido, ao invés de apenas tirar fotos, na guerra entre o governo da Nicarágua e os rebeldes sandinistas. Mas quando perde de vista a objetividade e se envolve na escaramuça, Russell pode perder ambas as batalhas e sua vida, pois ele se vê 'sob fogo cerrado' de todos os lados.

A história de amor entre a nicaragüense Carla e o escocês George começou a bordo de um ônibus em Glasgow. George é um motorista de ônibus de espírito aberto. Nada convencional, ele não acredita mesmo nessa história de que a vida seja tão simples que se limite ao cumprimento de regras, como respeitar o horário de expediente e parar em todos os sinais vermelhos. Carla, por sua vez, é uma refugiada nicaragüense desorientada, sem destino e com enormes dificuldades de adaptação a um ambiente e a uma lingua que não são as suas. Indiferente, a princípio, às investidas do apaixonado motorista, Carla decide voltar ao seu país. É 1987, ano em que os Contras preparam um assalto final ao domínio do governo sandinista. Mas o motorista, fascinado pela moça, resolve largar tudo para segui-la até a Nicarágua. Mas muitos interesses políticos e amorosos devem se afinar para que os dois encontrem sua própria forma de estar juntos.

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.

John e Elissa planejaram uma lua de mel perfeita: uma viagem inesquecível para a Nicarágua. Mas tudo parece desandar quando seus melhores amigos decidem embarcam na mesma viagem, com uma câmera na mão, tequila e muita comemoração que pode levar a muitas loucuras imprevisíveis.

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.

Based on a true story, this made-for-cable film tells about Barry Seal, a pilot who was a drug smuggler for the infamous Medellin cartel out of Colombia. He was caught by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and decided to turn over and help the DEA break the cartel. However, he got caught in the middle of the Reagan/Bush administration efforts to topple the Nicaraguan government in the '80s, in which Nicaraguan rebels called "contras" were allowed to smuggle cocaine into the US in exchange for their fighting against the leftist Nicaraguan government. Eventually Seal was murdered by his former Medellin employers, and some critics say it was with the tacit, if not implicit, connivance of the US administration.

Ballad of the Little Soldier is a 1984 documentary film about child soldiers in Nicaragua.

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.

Narrative of a period of life (1926 - 1934) of the Nicaraguan revolutionary leader Sandino, who was known as "The general of free men."

When a fellow Vietnam veteran is alleged to have thrown his lot in with the cocaine cartels, special commando Paul Gleason is dispatched to Nicaragua to sort out the mess.

Two young Nicaraguan children, Saslaya and her mute brother Dario, must travel to Costa Rica to find their long-lost mother.

Alemanha, Segunda Guerra Mundial: David Holland, um jovem soldado americano é salvo por um estranho misterioso. Vietnam, 1968: Vinte e cinco anos depois, Holland, agora correspondente de um jornal americano, estranhamente reencontra o mesmo soldado que o salvou, fisicamente inalterado. Nicarágua, 1991: Cobrindo um conflito, Holland descobre numa foto da guerra civil americana, que quatro soldados ainda estão combatendo em guerras pelo mundo afora. Sua descoberta o coloca em estado de choque. O pelotão é na verdade formado por um grupo de vampiros imortais que se aproveitam dos conflitos pra saciar sua sede de sangue.

Three Nicaraguan-American artists from the Washington D.C. Metro area discuss growing up in two cultures and how it influences their art.

Alsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops when a US advisor orders the army to open a staging area by the boy's hamlet. Alsino tries to be a child, climbing trees with a girl, looking through his grandfather's trunk of mementos and trying to fly; he goes to town to sell a saddle, has his first drink and is taken to a brothel. But the war surrounds him. The US advisor takes Alsino on a chopper flight, but he's unimpressed. The soldiers' cruelties awake rebel sympathies in Alsino, and after an army assault backfires, the lad is fully baptized into the conflict.

The conflict between Dole Food Company and Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten unfolds dramatically in the documentary "BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!" as the corporation attempts to suppress Gertten's earlier film, "BANANAS!"—chronicling Nicaraguan workers' lawsuit against Dole. Initially selected for the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival, "BANANAS!" was abruptly removed from competition, followed by a negative article in the Los Angeles Business Journal and legal threats from Dole's attorneys. Gertten captures this saga of corporate intimidation, media manipulation, and legal challenges in his documentary, showcasing the struggles documentary filmmakers face and highlighting the threat to freedom of speech posed by powerful corporations protecting their reputations.

Juan “Accidentes” Dominguez is on his biggest case ever. On behalf of twelve Nicaraguan banana workers he is tackling Dole Food in a ground-breaking legal battle for their use of a banned pesticide that was known by the company to cause sterility. Can he beat the giant, or will the corporation get away with it?

American resort developers bear down on the wild west coast of Nicaragua, hoping to build the next tourist paradise. With lax labour and environmental regulations, some of the developers take full advantage of the situation, and the local fishermen start accusing them of exploitation and land thievery. Unexpectedly, in the midst of this conflict, firebrand Daniel Ortega and the Sandinistas sweep back into government, boldly empowering the local fishermen. The tables turn viciously on the American developers, who get much more than they bargained for. But when the local fishermen, corrupted by new found power, begin acting in the same manner as the American developers, questions are posed about human nature, morality, and ethics on a much larger scale.