Lee Shapiro was an American documentary film maker. His one feature length film, Nicaragua Was Our Home, was released in 1986. It was filmed in Nicaragua among the Miskito Indians who were then fighting against Nicaraguan government forces. In 1987 Shapiro was killed by the Soviet military while filming with anti-Soviet fighters in Afghanistan. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Nicaragua Was Our Home is a 1986 documentary about the Miskito Indians and their persecution and the hands of the Sandinistas, filmed and produced by Lee Shapiro of the Unification Church. ... Soviet redirects here. ...

Shapiro was a member of the Unification Church and a graduate of the Unification Theological Seminary. His film making was supported by CAUSA, a church-related anti-communist organization. He is survived by his wife Linda Shapiro. The Unification Church is a new religious movement started by Sun Myung Moon in Korea in the 1940s. ... The Unification Theological Seminary, located in Barrytown, New York, began its first classes in September 1975. ...

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[1] His death is reported by the New York Times. The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...

[2] His death is reported by his friend Erwin Franzen.

[3] He is mentioned in a speech by Sun Myung Moon, the founder of the Unification Church. Sun Myung Moon in 2005. ...