Crude is an impressively involving exposé documentary about the injustices that the oil drilling giants Texaco have enforced upon the native dwellers of Ecuador along the Amazonian River. This is protest cinema at its best. This highly effective portrayal of the terribly wronged indigenous tribes of Ecuador follows their trail in the courts as they try to claim back their basic human rights that the US corporate group Chevron took away from them.
BY LAURA ANN SHEARER
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