A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
Released: March 1, 2006Runtime: 85 min
Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack's nonfiction treatise Crude Awakening joins Maxed Out, An Inconvenient Truth, and other recent documentaries devoted to unearthing and exploring forces that are untying the connective threads of contemporary society. The subject at hand is crude oil - specifically, the depletion of petroleum from the Earth, in an era when consumption threatens to exceed supply.
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Wade Adams
as Self - Researcher in Nanotechnology
Abdul Samad Al Awadi
as Self - Oil Consultant
Fadhil J Al Chalabi
as Self - Former OPEC Executive Secretary-General
Roscoe Bartlett
as Self - US Congressman
Robert Bottome
as Self - Economist, Caracas
Colin J Campbell
as Self - Oil Geologist
Marcello Colitti
as Self - Former Chief Executive of ENI S.p.A.
Alberto Quiros Corradi
as Self - President of Allied Consulting, Caracas
Mir Babajev Mir Jusiv Fazilogli
as Self - Oil Historian
Daniele Ganser
as Self - Historian
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