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Big Men

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United Kingdom, Denmark, United States · 2014
1h 39m
Director Rachel Boynton
Starring George Owusu-Afriyie, Bill Hayes, Jeffrey Harris
Genre Documentary

In this gripping documentary, filmmaker Rachel Boynton examines the oil industries of Ghana and Nigeria from inside Dallas-based oil company Kosmos Energy. Boynton's access to Africa’s oil companies is unprecedented, and this access allows her to investigate the causes — and corruption — behind Africa’s resource curse.

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RogerEbert.com by

It's those bigger questions about our nature and our capacity to think beyond self interest that will stick with you.

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The Dissolve by Nathan Rabin

Thankfully, Big Men doesn’t have heroes or villains. It’s a deep dive into an endless pool of moral and political ambiguity in which very little is clear-cut, except that the desire for wealth and power.

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Variety by Scott Foundas

Rachel Boynton’s extraordinary Big Men should come tagged with a warning: The side effects of global capitalism may include dizziness, nausea and seething outrage.

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