Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired
Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired

Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired

6.0

1 hr 4 min

2017-06-18

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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.

Documentary

History

Trailers

Characters

Oscar Arias

Oscar Arias

Self

Maria Pretiz

Maria Pretiz

Narrator

Tom Brokaw

Tom Brokaw

Self

Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev

Self

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