Crude
Original title: Crude
Duration: 50’
Producer: Richard Smith
Director: Richard Smith
Participant: Richard Smith
Company: Australian Broadcast Corporation
Scientific field: Environment
Year: 2007
Country: Australia
Crude – an elegant and gripping saga of oil. Where does it come from? When will it run out?
Where is it driving us? This extraordinary documentary sweeps through the ages: from the
birth of oil deep in the dinosaur – inhabited past, to its ascendancy as the indispensable
ingredient of modern life. Now, as we crest the peak of production, Crude reveals a disturbing
irony: the latest scientific evidence suggests that our headlong rush to exploit the remaining
resource will lead us down a dangerous road to the future. A road the planet has travelled
before...
Crude
