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Under Fire

1983

During the 1979 Sandinista revolution, three American journalists covering the conflict in Nicaragua find their professional detachment collapsing as they are drawn personally into the war and its moral stakes. A gripping political drama.

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A foreign-journalist drama centered on the Nicaraguan Revolution and fall of Somoza.

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