Oil Spill of The Century (2019)

Oil Spill of The Century « Movie from 2019

Movie from 2019

Broadcast info
Duration: 2640 min
Genres: History, Historie, Historical

In 1978, the Amoco Cadiz, a supertanker loaded with 220,000 tons of petrol, ran aground in Brittany, France.

The accident caused the biggest oil spill France has ever known and is still today known as one of the 20th century’s biggest ecological catastrophes.

Forty years later, Loïck Peyron tries to understand how nature recovered from the disaster and what lessons were learned from it.