(Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired)

Content: 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.

Countries:

United States of America

Genres:

Documentary,

History

Runtime:

64 minutes

Year:

2017

Directors:

Dawn Gifford Engle

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Production companies:

PeaceJam Productions

Actors:

Self

Narrator

Self

Self

Crews:

Writer

Director

Executive Producer

Sound Designer

Editor