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Supported by a powerful mix of archival footage, NASA shots of burning oil fields, and, often unintentionally hilarious, historical film excerpts, OilCrash guides us on an exotic, visual journey from ... read more read more...Houston to Caracas, the Lake of Maracaibo, the Orinoco delta, Central Asia's secretive republic of Azerbaijan with its ancient capital Baku and the Caspian Sea, via London & Zürich. OilCrash visits cities around the world to learn of our future from such leading authorities as oil investment banker Matthew Simmons, former OPEC chairman Fadhil Chalabhi, Caltech's head of physics, Professor David Goodstein, Stanford University political scientist, Terry Lynn Karl, peak oil expert, Matthew Savinar and many more.

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G, 1 hr. 25 min.

Directed by: Basil Gelpke, Ray McCormack

Release Date: April 1, 2006

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Joe Leydon
April 3, 2006
Joe Leydon, Variety

[The film] manages to avoid stridency and simplicity while delivering an alarmist message bolstered by myriad interviews with government, industry and academic experts. Full Review

Don R. Lewis
March 15, 2006
Don R. Lewis, Film Threat

I do think people need to see this movie to understand where we're headed due to wasteful and greedy pigheadedness. Full Review

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