Blood and Oil (2008)
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.
Director: Jeremy Earp
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Ronald Reagan as Self (archive footage) |
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Osama bin Laden as Self (archive footage) |
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George H. W. Bush as Self (archive footage) |
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George W. Bush as Self (archive footage) |
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Jimmy Carter as Self (archive footage) |
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Dick Cheney as Self (archive footage) |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower as Self (archive footage) |
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Sean Hannity as Self (archive footage) |
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Saddam Hussein as Self (archive footage) |
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Thomas L. Friedman as Self (archive footage) |
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John F. Kennedy as Self (archive footage) |
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Bill O'Reilly as Self (archive footage) |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt as Self (archive footage) |
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Karl Rove as Self (archive footage) |
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Donald Rumsfeld as Self (archive footage) |
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Tony Snow as Self (archive footage) |
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Paul Wolfowitz as Self (archive footage) |
| Directing | Jeremy Earp | Director |
| Writing | Michael Klare | Writer |
| Writing | Jeremy Earp | Writer |
| Writing | Scott Morris | Writer |
