Blood and Oil (2008)
Overview
The notion that oil motivates America's military engagements in the Middle East is often disregarded as nonsense or mere conspiracy theory. In Blood and Oil, bestselling author and Nation magazine defense correspondent Michael T. Klare challenges this conventional wisdom and corrects the historical record. The film unearths declassified documents and highlights forgotten passages in prominent presidential doctrines to show how concerns about oil have been at the core of American foreign policy for more than 60 years -- rendering our contemporary energy and military policies virtually indistinguishable. In the end, Blood and Oil calls for a radical re-thinking of US energy policy, warning that unless we change direction, we stand to be drawn into one oil war after another as the global hunt for diminishing world petroleum supplies accelerates.
Overview
The notion that oil motivates America's military engagements in the Middle East is often disregarded as nonsense or mere conspiracy theory. In Blood and Oil, bestselling author and Nation magazine defense correspondent Michael T. Klare challenges this conventional wisdom and corrects the historical record. The film unearths declassified documents and highlights forgotten passages in prominent presidential doctrines to show how concerns about oil have been at the core of American foreign policy for more than 60 years -- rendering our contemporary energy and military policies virtually indistinguishable. In the end, Blood and Oil calls for a radical re-thinking of US energy policy, warning that unless we change direction, we stand to be drawn into one oil war after another as the global hunt for diminishing world petroleum supplies accelerates.
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Release Date
June 13, 2008
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Runtime
0h 52m
Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage)
Osama bin Laden
Self (archive footage)
George H. W. Bush
Self (archive footage)
George W. Bush
Self (archive footage)
Jimmy Carter
Self (archive footage)
Dick Cheney
Self (archive footage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self (archive footage)
Sean Hannity
Self (archive footage)
Saddam Hussein
Self (archive footage)
Thomas L. Friedman
Self (archive footage)
John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Bill O'Reilly
Self (archive footage)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self (archive footage)
Karl Rove
Self (archive footage)
Donald Rumsfeld
Self (archive footage)
Tony Snow
Self (archive footage)
Paul Wolfowitz
Self (archive footage)
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