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Stories Set in Honduras
Stuck between stronger neighbors with weaker luck, Honduras took Hurricane Mitch in 1998, gang spillover from El Salvador's deportation wave, and a 2009 coup that tipped its politics into chronic crisis. With few jobs and rising violence, leaving became the national story, and its films follow people going. Sin Nombre rides with them atop the freight trains. Open Honduras on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 6 books and 9 movies set in Honduras.
Sin Nombre
Sayra a Honduran teen hungers for a better life. Her chance for one comes when she is reunited with her long-estranged father who intends to emigrate to Mexico and then enter the United States. Sayra's life collides…
Icebox
Forced to flee his home in Honduras Óscar seeks asylum in the United States only to find himself trapped in the immigration system.
A Place in the Caribbean
Gael travels to the Island of Roatan to finish his last novel and finds love at first sight. Sofia and her father missed their cruise and are forced to stay in the wonderful island. Three love stories around this…
Bold Tricks
With more lives at stake and games in motion, Ellie, Camden and Javier form an uneasy alliance that will take them from the treacherous streets of inner-city Mexico to the wilds of the Honduran jungles in order to find…
The Lost City of the Monkey God
The search for The Lost City of the Monkey God follows explorer Steve Elkins and a team of archaeologists anthropologists scientists and filmmakers in this true-life adventure as they overcome torrential rains dense…
Enrique's Journey
A true story from award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounting the odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States.In this astonishing true story, award-winning…
Blanca Olmedo
Blanca Olmedo hace vivir al lector la nobleza de un corazón puro, víctimas de los prejuicios sociales, de la injusticia y de la calumnia, pero que en la vida vibró con los más nobles sentimientos. Trabajadora…
The Mosquito Coast
In a breathtaking adventure story, the paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to build a civilization better than the one they've left. Fleeing from an…
The Last Days of Left Eye
Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes was the hip-hop voice of TLC the best selling female R&B group of all time. On March 30th 2002 Lisa decided to document her life. She filmed at a mysterious spiritual retreat deep in the…
Caffeinated
This documentary explores a vivid and unmatched perspective to the existence of coffee in our daily lives. Expanding production to United States Italy India Guatemala Honduras and Nicaragua the film takes coffee…
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