The Prize - Episode 02: Empires of Oil

PBS, Maxine Baker, Donald Sutherland (narrator)

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Title: The Prize - Episode 02: Empires of Oil
Producer: PBS, Maxine Baker, Donald Sutherland (narrator)
Category: Globalization, Money & Business, The Prize
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Added: Sep 30th 2011
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Witness capitalism on a grand scale: how Shell Oil and Royal Dutch merged, then challenged the supremacy of Rockefeller's Standard Oil. A compelling tale of how oil transformed everyday life in the farthest corners of the globe, made Russia a great oil power, and helped the Allies win World War I.

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Oil, history, money, power, control, Government, Empire, Globalization, documetary, science, big oil, monopoly, Donald Sutherland, Maxine Baker, world war i, shell, royal dutch, shell oil, Empires of Oil