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Showing 1 - 10 of 10 titles with a criteria of Available to public libraries AND 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
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
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
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
Water for Life
Water for Life follows three Latin American Indigenous community leaders as they face death threats and murder to save their precious water resources from mining, industrial agriculture, and hydroelectric projects.
Bullfrog Films | 2023 | 91 minutes
