Ray McCormack Biography

9.7 A Crude Awakening2006

Genres: Documentary, War

Director: Ray McCormack, Basil Gelpke

Artists: Roscoe Bartlett, Fadhil J. Al-Chalabi, Abdul Samad Al-Awadi, Wade Adams

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 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 banke ...