Empires of Industry - Black Gold: The Story of Oil (History Channel) @ richardeward.com

Empires of Industry - Black Gold: The Story of Oil (History Channel)
from A&E Home Video
starring Empires of Industry

Features:

• Closed-captioned
• Color
• DVD-Video
• NTSC

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Bad Black Gold
  Having read Daniel Yergin's epic on the oil industry (The Prize) I was expecting much much more from this DVD. I must say after viewing its less than 1 hour effort I am utterly disappointed. To begin with, Amazon.com should make it mandatory for each DVD on sale to state the length of the production. This is basic product information and I wonder why we need to get this information from customer reviews when available. After a 5 hour "The Story of India" and a 4-disc "The Universe" my expectations were for... more info

• Empires of Industry - Black Gold: The story of oil
  Great general history of the petroleum industry in America and abroad. Terrific photos, documents and tales - I'd highly recommend.

• Story of Oil
  Good historical review of the importance of oil in our society. Somewhat simplified with little insight of political and industrial importance.

• Film Review
  It was slightly better than average, but it certainly was aimed to make the petro industry look good.

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