On Wednesday, September 9th, a powerful new documentary film is opening in New York, and then playing in select theaters across the country. Called CRUDE, the film tells a shocking story that Chevron does not want the world to know.

Three years in the making, this feature from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Brother’s Keeper, Paradise Lost, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster) is the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial environmental lawsuits on the planet. The inside story of the infamous "Amazon Chernobyl" case, CRUDE is a real-life high stakes legal drama, set against a backdrop of the environmental movement, global politics, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, the media, multinational corporate power, and rapidly-disappearing indigenous cultures. Presenting a complex situation from multiple viewpoints, the film subverts the conventions of advocacy filmmaking, exploring a complicated situation from all angles while bringing an important story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus.

CRUDE opens in New York on Sept. 9th, followed by Los Angeles on Sept. 18th, and San Francisco & Berkeley on Sept. 25th. The film then goes on to play in a handful of smaller markets across the country, including Washington, DC (opens Oct. 23rd).

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Read More: Official CRUDE Website | Coverage on The Huffing Post