The spill that changed everything — and the cover-up Big Oil hoped you'd forget.
Direction
Barker White's unflinching access to devastated fishing communities.
Production
Rare insider footage of cleanup operations and regulatory failures.
Director
Barker White
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Riki Ott, featured prominently, is a marine toxicologist who also testified before Congress and wrote multiple books on the spill's aftermath.
Released two years after the spill, this was among the first documentaries to challenge BP's PR campaign that dominated early media coverage.
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