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Summary
On April 22, 2010 the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig run by BP sunk into the Gulf of Mexico, creating the worst oil spill in history. Two documentarians set out to find the root cause of it all…
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Critics vs audiences
Audiences a little warmer than critics (+9)
Critics 72Audiences 81GoodWatch 65
Tomatometer86%
Metascore57
Audience score84%
IMDb7.7
Running time
1 h 29 min
A typical length for documentaries, −7 min on the typical 96
typical 9689Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 1 country
Released
2011
May 15, 2011
15 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
United States
Directing · 2
- Rebecca Harrell Tickell Director, Producer
- Josh Tickell Director
Writing · 1
- Johnny O'Hara Writer
Production · 3
- Tim Robbins Executive Producer
- Peter Fonda Executive Producer
- Maggie Wachsberger Executive Producer
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