Summaries

A history of oil and mining exploitation.

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Genres
  • Drama
  • Animation
  • History
  • Documentary
  • News
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) Not Rated
Countries of origin United States
Language English

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Tech specs

Runtime 1h 20m
Color Color
Aspect ratio

Synopsis

Part One, AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A HOPI (9 minutes), starts with peaceful pueblo agricultural life. In a personal documentary, a Hopi farmer recalls government boarding school, urban poverty, and World War making him pleased to return to the simple life of his ancestors.

In Part Two, EARTH SPIRIT (35 minutes), pueblo people protest oil and mining because their prophecy predicts disaster. In this docudrama, indigenous protest stops a mining invasion seeking nuclear fuel, but only at the cost of an elder's death.

In Part Three, THIRD WORLD INVESTMENT SEMINAR (36 minutes), prophecy is fulfilled as corporate capitalism oil and mining bring more protests, widespread war and devastation. In this international documentary report, mining and drilling bring pollution and sickness and death across Latin America, Africa, and Asia.

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