Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired (2017)

Released | 2017-06-18 | History-Documentary | 64m | 6/10

Dawn Gifford Engle (Writer) | Rip Gellein (Producer) | Jacque Gellein (Producer) | Maria Pretiz (Musician) |

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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.

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Oscar Arias (Himself) | Maria Pretiz (Narrator) | Tom Brokaw (Himself) | Mikhail Gorbachev (Himself) |