Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired

Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired

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

2017 en 64 minutes

Rating: 6

Plot

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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Cast

Oscar Arias

Oscar Arias

Self

Maria Pretiz

Maria Pretiz

Narrator

Tom Brokaw

Tom Brokaw

Self

Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev

Self

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