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- Alice, a British-Nigerian PR exec, travels to the Niger Delta to represent an oil firm during a hostage crisis.
- Meet the Cutters - a blue collar, Midwestern family determined to keep their oil company alive amidst Ohio's aggressive oil boom.
- Andrew Marr looks at the role that painting played in Winston Churchill's life as a form of therapy, and relates it to his own process of recovery from a stroke.
- 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.
- Marty Callaghan's Synopsis: Except for the Dardanelles/Gallipoli campaigns, the extensive combat operations in the Middle East during World War I have been largely overlooked in documentary programs. Given the historical significance of the Ottoman Empire's demise in 1918, and the ongoing importance of Middle Eastern oil reserves to Western economies, a close study of this conflict provides two important lessons: 1. The Treaty of Versailles, agreed to by the Western Powers in 1919, paved the way for military and political chaos in the Middle East, which continues to this very day. 2. Oil reserves in the Middle East became an important strategic concern for Western Powers, helping to justify their economic, diplomatic and military interference in the region. After the end of World War I, most of the Ottoman Empire was carved up into "spheres of influence", controlled mostly by the British and French. The remaining territories became the modern state of Turkey in 1923 - after a five-year struggle by Turkish nationalists against Western domination. With little regard for cultural, historical, religious and demographic considerations, the West sponsored the creation of several new nations: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Thus, a "tinderbox" was built from Western greed, igniting a multitude of wars, revolts, coups and military occupations that truly have made the defeat of the Ottoman Empire little more than a hollow victory.
- Three young artists isolate in a lavish Los Angeles pool house and collaborate on an introspective painting.
- 2011–Podcast Episode
- 2022– 11mPodcast Episode
- XXI Century examines how international human rights organizations are working to foresee the effects of war on Iraqi civilians.
- 2018– 2h 39mPodcast Episode
- Episode: (2016)2010– 1h 2mPodcast Episode
- 2020– 29mPodcast Episode
- 2019–Podcast Episode
- 2016–Podcast Episode
- 2018– 1h 24mPodcast Episode
- Episode: (2024)2020–Podcast Episode