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Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired

The story of former president of Costa Rica and 1987 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Oscar Sanchez Arias.

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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.

Directed byDawn Gifford Engle

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 4m
Language
EN
Released
June 18, 2017
Budget
$500,000
Studios
PeaceJam Productions

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4 credited
Starring

Oscar Arias

Self

Maria Pretiz

Narrator

Tom Brokaw

Tom Brokaw

Self

Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev

Self

Creative team
Directed by
Dawn Gifford Engle
Written by
Dawn Gifford Engle
Produced by
Jacque Gellein
Rip Gellein

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