Featuring testimonies from many of the world's top experts; petroleum geologists, former OPEC officials, energy analysts, politicians, political analysts et al, this rich documentary reaches an ominous yet logical conclusion, that the Earth's cheap oil supplies are peaking, a crisis of global proportions looms and the industrial societies have nothing sustainable to replace our immense energy requirements. "Crude Awakening" is an intelligent and genuinely absorbing film arguing the case for 'peak oil' theory. That most who will want to watch it may already be keenly aware of the situation is a sad, ironic but irrefutable fact in itself.