Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired

Name: Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired
Director: Dawn Gifford Engle
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 2017
Rating: 6
Cast: Oscar Arias, Maria Pretiz, Tom Brokaw, Mikhail Gorbachev

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

6/10

2017

1h 4m

Documentary

History

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.