 Ballad of the Little Soldier

Ballad of the Little Soldier () is a 1984 documentary film directed by Werner Herzog about children soldiers in Nicaragua.The film focuses on a group of Miskito Indians who used children soldiers in their resistance against the Sandinistas.Herzog made and co-directed the film at the request of his friend Denis Reichle, who himself served as a child-soldier in the Volkssturm at age fourteen in the aftermath of World War II.