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  • 2005
  • Free-Will Productions
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2005
  • Free-Will Productions
  • 1 h 33 m
The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror

Summary After assessing today's dwindling oil reserves and skyrocketing use of oil for fuels, plastics and chemicals, this documentary questions the motives for the U.S. wars in the Middle-East and Central Asia where 3/4 of the world's oil and natural gas is located. (Free-Will Productions)

Directed By: Audrey Brohy, Gerard Ungerman

Written By: Audrey Brohy, Gerard Ungerman

  • 2005
  • Free-Will Productions
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2005
  • Free-Will Productions
  • 1 h 33 m

The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror

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Summary After assessing today's dwindling oil reserves and skyrocketing use of oil for fuels, plastics and chemicals, this documentary questions the motives for the U.S. wars in the Middle-East and Central Asia where 3/4 of the world's oil and natural gas is located. (Free-Will Productions)

Directed By: Audrey Brohy, Gerard Ungerman

Written By: Audrey Brohy, Gerard Ungerman

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The interviews are carefully augmented with speeches by President Bush and other administration officials, plus footage from Iraq and Afghanistan, and powerful graphics detailing the depletion of the global oil supply.
By Kevin Crust FULL REVIEW
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Ungerman and Brohy spread themselves a little thin across the map of U.S. intrigue, abruptly losing sight of Iraq while retreading familiar ground about early American backing of the Taliban.
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Most of this is old news. And the filmmakers never make a coherent case, at least not to the layperson. As a result, the film, which runs about 90 minutes, seems painfully long.
By Anita Gates FULL REVIEW
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Directors Gerard Ungerman and Audrey Brohy don't provide much analysis, instead telling the familiar stories of the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.
By Fred Camper FULL REVIEW
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Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror gives muckraking journalism a bad name. Gerard Ungerman and Audrey Brohy's DV assemblage of talking heads and footage shot in Iraq after the cessation of primary hostilities is low-rent Michael Moore, a poorly argued piece of agitprop.
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Production Company Free-Will Productions
Release Date Jul 15, 2005
Duration 1 h 33 m
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Awards

Women Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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