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What if the oil runs out

Author: Bren SimsonSarah WoodsJennifer CalvertAnthony GreenJames JordanAll authors
Publisher: [Princeton, NJ] : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2007.
Edition/Format:   DVD video : English
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This film follows a middle-aged, Midwestern couple through violence at gas stations, conflicts with neighbors, and the loss of their livelihood; it also focuses on their daughter, an oil prospector determined to find new crude oil fields in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge. Interspersed with the docudrama are notable statistics on oil production and consumption as well as real-world interviews with former  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Television programs
Drama
Material Type: Videorecording, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Visual material
All Authors / Contributors: Bren Simson; Sarah Woods; Jennifer Calvert; Anthony Green; James Jordan; Sandra Dickinson; Bradley Lavelle; British Broadcasting Corporation.; Discovery Channel (Firm); Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
ISBN: 9781421379678 1421379678
OCLC Number: 180192393
Language Note: Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
Notes: Originally broadcast on television in 2006.
"A BBCW production."--Container.
Credits: Director of photography, Chris Hartley ; costume designer, Sarah-Jane Ellis ; music, Julian Stewart Lindsay ; film editors, Alan Mackay, Adrian Gordon ; executive producer, Paul Woolwich.
Cast: Jennifer Calvert, Anthony Green, James Jordan, Sandra Dickinson, Bradley Lavelle.
Description: 1 videodisc (44 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Details: DVD.
Other Titles: If ... the oil runs out
Responsibility: a BBC/Discovery Channel co-production ; producer, Guy Smith ; director, Bren Simson ; written by Sarah Woods.

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This film follows a middle-aged, Midwestern couple through violence at gas stations, conflicts with neighbors, and the loss of their livelihood; it also focuses on their daughter, an oil prospector determined to find new crude oil fields in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge. Interspersed with the docudrama are notable statistics on oil production and consumption as well as real-world interviews with former Pentagon energy security adviser Paul Domjan, Centre for Global Energy Studies chairman Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, and other experts.
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