Frontline S3 E11 - Crisis in Central America 1: Yankee Years

Frontline

Frontline S3 E11 - Crisis in Central America 1: Yankee Years
Mar 10, 2026 55 min Documentary Movies
6.9

From the Spanish-American War in 1898 until the 1950's, US preeminence in Central America and the Caribbean was never successfully challenged. Part 1 looks at these turbulent years that set the stage for today's crises-from the glory days of building the Panama Canal, through the early US Marine occupation of Nicaragua, to the Cold War crisis in Guatemala in 1954, which resulted in the CIA's first 'covert' war in the region.

Creator David Fanning
Actor Will Lyman
Country United States of America
Production GBH