(Joe Berlinger, US 2009, 100 min.)

This exciting and inspiring new film documents the compelling, real-life David vs. Goliath struggle of 30,000 plaintiffs from five indigenous Ecuadoran tribes to find justice from Chevron, one of the world’s largest oil producers. Crude tracks the ongoing 16-year battle between the corporate behemoth and those Ecuadoran communities poisoned by the dumping of toxic waste in the Amazon. The story focuses on the charismatic lawyers and activists who have doggedly pursued the case against all the forces a corporation can bring into courts of law.