Crude

Three years in the making, this shocking investigative documentary by acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Brothers Keeper, Paradise Lost, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster) tells the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet. An inside look at the infamous $27 billion "Amazon Chernobyl" case, Crude is a real-life high stakes legal drama set against a backdrop of the environmental movement, global politics, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, multinational corporate power, and rapidly-disappearing indigenous cultures. Subverting the conventions of advocacy filmmaking, this award-winning film examines a complex situation from all angles, while bringing an important story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus. John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, describes the film as "absolutely the most powerful, emotion-provoking, heart-wrenching documentary I have ever seen." 

Director:

Joe Berlinger 

Reviews:

The New York Times, A.O. Scott

The Village Voice, Scott Foundas

San Francisco Chronicle, Walter Addiego

Philadelphia Inquirer, Steven Rea

Washington Post, John Anderson