Blood and Oil
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.
Release Date
June 13, 2008Runtime
52 minRating
PG-13Genres
DocumentaryDirected by
Jeremy EarpWritten by
Michael Klare, Jeremy Earp, Scott MorrisLanguage
EnglishBudget
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ReleasedCast
Ronald Reagan
SelfOsama Bin Laden
SelfGeorge H. W. Bush
SelfGeorge W. Bush
SelfJimmy Carter
SelfDick Cheney
SelfDwight D. Eisenhower
SelfSean Hannity
SelfSaddam Hussein
SelfThomas L. Friedman
SelfJohn F. Kennedy
SelfBill O'Reilly
SelfFranklin D. Roosevelt
SelfKarl Rove
SelfDonald Rumsfeld
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