Director Joe Berlinger continues in the tradition of his justice-driven films Brother's Keeper and Paradise Lost with this documentary.

Director Joe Berlinger continues in the tradition of his justice-driven films Brother’s Keeper and Paradise Lost with this documentary. Crude travels to South America, where it investigates the mammoth Amazon Chernobyl case from a variety of angles, refusing to take the side of any single person or side. Though it is a non-fiction documentary in form, Berlinger’s film has the pull of a legal drama where human life and the environment are at stake.