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The great invisible / RADiUS-TWC presents ; in association with Participant Media ; a 7&7 Films/ Gigantic Pictures production ; in association with Passion Pictures and Motto Pictures ; produced & direrected by Margaret Brown.
LIBRA DVD 025 812
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010--Environmental aspects--Alabama.
- BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010.
- BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010--Environmental aspects--Louisiana.
- BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010--Environmental aspects--Texas.
- Offshore oil well drilling--Accidents--Mexico, Gulf of.
- Offshore oil well drilling.
- Petroleum industry and trade--Accidents--Mexico, Gulf of.
- Petroleum industry and trade.
- BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010--Press coverage.
- Press coverage.
- Petroleum industry and trade--Accidents.
- Offshore oil well drilling--Accidents.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Historical films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Educational edition.
- Distribution:
- [Sausalito, Calif.] : Distributed by Ro*Co Films Educational.
- Place of Publication:
- [Beverly Hills, Calif.] : Participant Media, [2014?]
- Language Note:
- In English, with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD; NTSC.
- digital
- optical
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. It killed 11 workers and caused the worst oil spill in American history. The documentary director Brown traveled to small towns and major cities across Alabama, Louisiana and Texas to explore the fallout of the environmental disaster. Years later, the Southern Americans still haunted by the Deepwater Horizon explosion provide first-hand accounts of their ongoing experience, long after the story has faded from the front page.
- Participant:
- Interviews with oil executives, survivors and Gulf Coast residents who experienced the Deepwater Horizon explosion.
- Credits:
- Cinematography, Jeffrey Peixoto, Adam Stone, Jody Lee Lipes; editors, Robin Schwartz, Tyler Hubby; music, David Wingo composed by Blake Leyh ; narrator (voice of), Doug Brown.
- Notes:
- Originally released as documentary in 2014.
- Aspect ratio: 16:9.
- SXSW Film Festival, 2014: SXSW Grand Jury Award in Best International Documentary Film (Margaret Brown).
- OCLC:
- 903913632
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