Wow... that's probably the one word that can explain my reaction to this amazing documentary produced and directed by European journalists Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack. Interesting enough, these two journalists have a vast and different background than each other and use interviews with academics, scholars and experts in how mankind's love affair with oil is leading us all to disaster and dependency.

Showing the history of oil throughout the world and how the dwindling supplies in the West led to war, the documentary gives its viewers two bleak outlooks of the future. One without fossil fuel consumption that uses new technology and is also highly unlikely or another option, the act of war.

Needless to say Gelpke and McCormack come full circle in this documentary that not only states that mankind would find it difficult to sustain humanity without our current fossil fuel consumption, the DVD is a harsh truth of how mankind, politics and oil is destroying the world we live in. Gripping!

Special Features

- Bonus Chapter "Petrostates"
- 85 Minutes of Additional Interviews
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Audio