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Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster (1992)

Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster poster
Directed by
Paul Seed
Genre
disaster film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rating
5.2 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A television movie that reconstructs the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. It follows the chain of events leading to the disaster and the subsequent efforts to contain the environmental damage.

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What happens

Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster is a 1992 television movie depicting the Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster off the coast of Alaska. Directed by Paul Seed, it stars Christopher Lloyd, John Heard, Rip Torn and Michael Murphy. Most of the film was shot in Vancouver, Richmond and Steveston, British Columbia, but it also utilizes archival film clips of the actual disaster and cleanup efforts. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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