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Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired

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2017-06-181h 4m

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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.

Directors
Dawn Gifford Engle
Writters
Dawn Gifford Engle
Editors
Dawn Gifford Engle, Zabe Holloway

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  1. Oscar Arias

    Oscar Arias

    Self

  2. Maria Pretiz

    Maria Pretiz

    Narrator

  3. Tom Brokaw

    Tom Brokaw

    Self

  4. Mikhail Gorbachev

    Mikhail Gorbachev

    Self

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$500,000.00
Revenue
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Keywords
politicscentral americacosta rica