On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon, an oil rig owned by Transocean and leased by BP, exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers. Over the next three months, more than four million barrels of oil gushed into the sea, making the spill one of the worst manmade environmental disasters in history. In this thrilling drama, director Margaret Brown takes us into the lives of those who continue to be affected by the accident years after the media have moved on. The Deepwater Horizon’s chief mechanic provides wrenching testimony about the escalating safety breaches and corner cutting that led up to the accident. Survivors of the blast describe their guilt and PTSD while Gulf Coast fishermen lament the loss of jobs caused by the spill. But Brown complicates what could be easy corporate condemnation by zooming back out to examine the binding tie between oil dependency, politics, and American culture. How can we criticize this industrial behemoth when we’re so inextricably entwined with it?  EM