Syriana

I remember that Syriana and Munich were released at the same time back in 2005. I wanted to watch both the movies for their close to non-fiction plots but ended up watching Munich in theater and adding Syriana to my 100+ list on Blockbuster after the DVD was released.
Last week, I was watching a session of Jeff Skoll on TED and learned the connection between Syriana, Charlie Wilson's War (a movie I liked), An Inconvenient Truth, ebay and social entrepreneurship. Jeff's company Participant Productions produced all these movies and is a great platform to learn, share and discuss geo-social issues and ideas. To take part go here. The first thing I did after realizing the connection was pushing all Participant Productions movies in my Blockbuster list to the top and I just finished Syriana. It's a movie that requires lot of focus and concentration. It's jam packed with plots and information on quite a few issues including capitalism, oil addiction, corruption, politics, terrorism, fundamentalism, CIA, family crisis and more. The movie requires quite a bit of explanation if you do not grasp it.
Energy as we all know is the numero uno priority of many nations and the world is going to be a radically different place if the current supply of energy is not replaced by the new innovations in geneology or other renewable sources. Yes, geneology. I am as far as you can go from biology but I believe that by modifying and engineering microbes we can certainly solve both global warming and oil crisis at the same time.