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  • TV-14
    TV Episode | 30 min | Documentary, News

Vice

Crude Reality & Between Oil and Water (Season 5, Episode 19)
TV-14
TV Episode | 30 min | Documentary, News
Six years after winning its independence, South Sudan is already on the brink of collapse. Despite its vast oil reserves and more than $10 Billion in aid from the United States, the country has been driven into famine and a devastating ...See moreSix years after winning its independence, South Sudan is already on the brink of collapse. Despite its vast oil reserves and more than $10 Billion in aid from the United States, the country has been driven into famine and a devastating ethnic war. VICE's Isobel Yeung explores how corruption at the top is threatening to tear the world's newest country apart. Last year, thousands of Native Americans and environmental activists from across the country converged at Standing Rock in an effort to block construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline near the reservation. By winter, a lean-to encampment had grown into a massive protest site the size of a small town, and clashes between protesters and local police and corporate security flared into the nights. VICE traveled to the Sacred Stone Camp in December and followed the story over the subsequent months as the Trump Administration moved quickly to resume work on the pipeline, examining how resource extraction has affected Native American communities. See less
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Writer
Reid Cherlin (additional writing)
Producers
Shawn Killebrew (producer) | David McDougall (producer) | Isobel Yeung (producer)
Cinematographers
Jake Burghart (director of photography) | Spencer Chumbley (segment director of photography) | Daniel Hollis (segment director of photography) | Jerry Ricciotti (managing director of photography)
Editors
Richard Lowe | Andrew Pattison (finishing editor) | Paula Salhany
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Status
Edit Released
Updated Jul 28, 2017
Release date
Jul 28, 2017 (United States)
Awards
Series awards
Won 2 Primetime Emmy Awards. Another 4 wins & 24 nominations

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