Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired
“The story of former president of Costa Rica and 1987 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Oscar Sanchez Arias.”
2017•TV-14•1h 4m•6.0•Released
DocumentaryHistory
This is the story of a tiny country that made a decision to do something that no other country had ever done -- it decided to abolish its army and declare peace to the world. And this is the story of a young boy who grew up in that country, and how he ended up challenging -- and sometimes even convincing -- the greatest powers in the world to follow Costa Rica's example. "Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired" is a Don Quixote-like saga with great historical touchstones -- Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Cold War politics and Communism, Central American War and Peace. It follows a slight, academic, and most unlikely hero over the course of more than fifty years, as he travels the world in a quest to stop the spread of the weapons of war. In the end, it is a story about the triumph of reason, of the sparrow triumphing over the eagle, and how the impossible dream can sometimes come true.
Director
Dawn Gifford Engle
Writer
Dawn Gifford Engle
Budget
$1M
Languages
English, Spanish
Studio
PeaceJam Productions
Cast
Oscar Arias
Self
Maria Pretiz
Narrator
Tom Brokaw
Self
Mikhail Gorbachev
Self
Production
Company
PeaceJam Productions
Producer
Jacque Gellein
Producer
Rip Gellein
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