Editing Óscar Romero (section)

===Television and film===
* The opening scene in the otherwise fictional spy film ''[[S.A.S. à San Salvador]]'' (1983) shows a car carrying thugs through [[San Salvador]] and stopping at a church inside which the main villain assassinates Óscar Romero.
* [[Oliver Stone]]'s 1986 film ''[[Salvador (film)|Salvador]]'' depicts a fictionalized version of the assassination of Romero (played by [[José Carlos Ruiz]]) in a pivotal scene.<ref>{{cite news |last=Goodman |first=Walter |date=5 March 1986 |title=Screen: 'Salvador' by Stone |page=Section C, 22 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/05/movies/screen-salvador-by-stone.html |url-status=live |work=The New York Times |location=New York |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211112214632/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/05/movies/screen-salvador-by-stone.html |archive-date=12 November 2021 |access-date=23 February 2022}}</ref>  Romero's assassination (with [[René Enríquez]] as Romero) was also featured in the 1983 [[television film]] ''[[Choices of the Heart]]'' about the life and death of American Catholic missionary [[Jean Donovan]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Shales |first=Tom |date=5 December 1983 |title=NBC's Heartsick 'Choices' |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1983/12/05/nbcs-heartsick-choices/93069380-eba2-416e-9ced-0ce351636c65/ |url-status=live |newspaper=Washington Post |location=Washington, D.C. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223152537/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1983/12/05/nbcs-heartsick-choices/93069380-eba2-416e-9ced-0ce351636c65/ |archive-date=23 February 2022 |access-date=23 February 2022}}</ref> 
* The Archbishop's life is the basis of the 1989 film ''[[Romero (film)|Romero]]'', directed by [[John Duigan]] and starring [[Raul Julia]] as Romero. It was produced by Paulist Productions (a film company run by the [[Paulist Fathers]], a Roman Catholic society of priests). Timed for release ten years after Romero's death, it was the first Hollywood feature film ever to be financed by the order. The film received respectful, if less-than-enthusiastic, reviews. [[Roger Ebert]] typified the critics who acknowledged that "The film has a good heart, and the Julia performance is an interesting one, restrained and considered. ...The film's weakness is a certain implacable predictability."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/romero-1989 |title=Romero|last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=8 September 1989}}</ref>
<!-- Unreferenced: * Romero was depicted in two biopics about [[Pope John Paul II]], the U.S. television biopic ''[[Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II]]'' (ABC, 2005, [[Joaquim de Almeida]] as Romero) and the Italian biopic ''Karol, una papa rimasto uomo'' (English translation for Canadian TV ''[[Karol: The Pope, The Man]]'') 2006, Carlos Kaniowsky as Romero.-->
* In 2005, while at the [[University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism|UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism]], Daniel Freed,<ref>{{cite web|last=Freed|first=Daniel|title=About Daniel Freed|url=http://www.danielfreed.com/about|work=The "About" page|publisher=The Daniel Freed website|access-date=24 November 2012}}</ref> an independent documentary filmmaker and frequent contributor to [[PBS]] and [[CNBC]], made a 30-minute film entitled ''The Murder of Monseñor''<ref>{{cite web|last=Freed|first=Daniel|title=The Murder of Monseñor|url=http://www.danielfreed.com/projects/2935191#4|work=A 30-minute documentary film (2005)|publisher=The Daniel Freed Website|access-date=24 November 2012|archive-date=22 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130522181819/http://www.danielfreed.com/projects/2935191#4|url-status=dead}}</ref> which not only documented Romero's assassination but also told the story of how Álvaro Rafael Saravia – whom a US District court found, in 2004, had personally organized the assassination – moved to the United States and lived for 25 years as a used car salesman in [[Modesto, California]], until he became aware of the pending legal action against him in 2003 and disappeared, leaving behind his drivers license and social security card, as well as his credit cards and his dog.  In 2016 a 1993 law protecting the actions of the military during the Civil War was overruled by a Salvadoran high court and on 23 October 2018, another court ordered the arrest of Saravia.<ref name="thetabletwarrant"/>
* ''[[The Daily Show]]'' episode on 17 March 2010 showed clips from the Texas State Board of Education in which "a panel of experts" recommended including Romero in the state's history books,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/teks/social/AlphabetizedList_such_as.pdf |title=Historical Figures in Social Studies Teks Draft - January 2010 |access-date=18 March 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100326050411/http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/teks/social/AlphabetizedList_such_as.pdf |archive-date=26 March 2010 }}</ref> but an amendment proposed by Patricia Hardy<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index4.aspx?id=3420|title=SBOE Member District 11|date=20 March 2020}}</ref> to exclude Romero was passed on 10 March 2010. The clip of Ms. Hardy shows her arguing against including Romero because "I guarantee you most of you did not know who Oscar Romero was. ...I just happen to think it's not [important]."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cc.com/video-clips/zth8t9/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-don-t-mess-with-textbooks|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150927042215/http://www.cc.com/video-clips/zth8t9/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-don-t-mess-with-textbooks|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 September 2015|title=Don't Mess With Textbooks|date=3 March 2010|publisher=The Daily Show|access-date=15 October 2018}}</ref>
* A film about the Archbishop, ''Monseñor, the Last Journey of Óscar Romero'', with the priest Robert Pelton serving as executive producer, had its United States premiere in 2010. This film won the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Award for Merit in film, in competition with 25 other films. Pelton was invited to show the film throughout Cuba.  It was sponsored by ecclesial and human rights groups from Latin America and from North America.<ref>{{cite web|title = Romero Days 24–29 March 2010|url = http://kellogg.nd.edu/romero/Lecture.htm|access-date= 14 May 2010|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100501025416/http://kellogg.nd.edu/romero/Lecture.htm|archive-date = 1 May 2010|url-status = dead|df = dmy-all}}</ref> [[Alma Guillermoprieto]] in ''[[The New York Review of Books]]'' describes the film as a "hagiography," and as "an astonishing compilation of footage" of the final three years of his life.<ref>{{Cite magazine| last = Guillermoprieto| first = Alma| author-link = Alma Guillermoprieto| title = Death Comes for the Archbishop| magazine = The New York Review of Books| volume = LVII| issue = 9| pages = 41–42| date = 27 May 2010| url = http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/may/27/death-comes-archbishop/| access-date = 14 May 2010 }}</ref>