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Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired (2017)
Directed by Dawn Gifford Engle
“The story of former president of Costa Rica and 1987 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Oscar Sanchez Arias.”
Documentary, History · 1h 04m
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.
Cast
Tom Brokaw
Mikhail Gorbachev
Crew
- Director
- Dawn Gifford Engle
- Writer
- Dawn Gifford Engle
- Director of Photography
- Ivan Suvanjieff
- Editor
- Zabe Holloway
- Producer
- Rip Gellein, Jacque Gellein
Details
- Release date
- 2017-06-18
- Runtime
- 1h 04m
- Genres
- Documentary, History
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, Spanish
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- PeaceJam Productions
- Budget
- $500,000