documentary:

When did your addiction to docs start? Michael Moore films? PBS? Or was it when you saw Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth?

For me the fascination began when my history teacher played educational movies in class. While my friends dreaded the boring videos, I was hooked learning about the life and times of Roosevelt and Jefferson, or the Depression Era, or even Roman Emperors. Whatever the topic, I was simply paralyzed not aware of the world around me.

One of the earliest doc that I can recall (and find a full vid of on the net) is The Prize. An eight part series based on the book of the same name.

The Prize has been called the “definitive” history of the oil industry, even a “bible” [1]; some critics, though, consider the book too sympathetic to the perspective of the oil industry, of which the author is, in a way, a part. The Prize was the basis for a six hour documentary television series titled “The Prize - The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, & Power”, narrated by Donald Sutherland. The series is frequently used as a source material in Middle Eastern studies classes and is said to have been seen by 20 million people in the United States.

Above is the first part.

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