Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired (2017)

ALL 06/18/2017 (en) Documentary, History 64 Min
  • Release
    06/18/2017
  • Production
    PeaceJam Productions
  • Rotten tomato
    60%
  • Original title
    Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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The story of former president of Costa Rica and 1987 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Oscar Sanchez Arias.

Overview

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.

  1. Story

  2. Zabe Holloway

    Editor



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Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired (2017) 64 Min

ALL 06/18/2017 (en)
Documentary, History
  • Release 06/18/2017
  • Production
    PeaceJam Productions
  • Original title Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

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

Overview

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.

  1. Dawn Gifford Engle

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Zabe Holloway

    Editor

  4. Jacque Gellein, Rip Gellein

    Producer