

A Crude Awakening
2006-03-01 · 85 min · ★ 7.4
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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- Basil Gelpke, Ray McCormack
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- Lava Production
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- Switzerland
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