Under Fire (1983) w/ Paul Adlerstein | Ep. 51

Podcast: Bang-Bang Podcast · Van and Lyle are Bang-Bang

Opublikowano: 2025-11-18

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.bangbangpod.com Van and Lyle are joined once again by historian Paul Adlerstein to revisit Under Fire, Roger Spottiswoode’s gripping and often overlooked drama about the final days of the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua. The film follows three American journalists (Nick Nolte, Joanna Cassidy, and Gene Hackman) as they navigate the moral terrain of reporting on a revolution in real time. What looks at first like a conventional political thriller unfolds into something more complicated: A story about solidarity and betrayal, the et...