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2017

Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired

Directed by Dawn Gifford Engle
The story of former president of Costa Rica and 1987 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Oscar Sanchez Arias.

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.

Duration

1h 4m

Released

June 18, 2017

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  • Oscar Arias
  • Maria Pretiz
  • Tom Brokaw
  • Mikhail Gorbachev

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