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.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmLanguage: English Summary language: English, Spanish Original language: English Publisher: [Beverly Hills, Calif.] : Participant Media, [2015]Copyright date: ©2014Edition: Widescreen (1.78:1)Description: 1 DVD (92 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Audience:
  • Rated PG-13
  • General
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production 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.
Awards:
  • SXSW Film Festival, 2014: SXSW Grand Jury Award in Best International Documentary Film (Margaret Brown)
Interviews with oil executives, survivors and Gulf Coast residents who experienced the Deepwater Horizon explosion.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.
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Originally released as documentary in 2014.

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.

Interviews with oil executives, survivors and Gulf Coast residents who experienced the Deepwater Horizon explosion.

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.

Motion Picture Rating (MPAA): Rated PG-13.

DVD, NTSC, region 1; Dolby digital 5.1.

In English, with English and Spanish subtitles.

SXSW Film Festival, 2014: SXSW Grand Jury Award in Best International Documentary Film (Margaret Brown)

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