Part 5 of the excellent documentary series based on Daniel Yergin’s book “The Prize: Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power”.
This part is centred on the period after WWII and how governments realised that oil was too important to just be left to business to manage. Politics and oil were about to get very intermingled. The story of the discovery and growth of the country with the largest oil reserves, Saudi Arabia serves as the backdrop and provides the detail of the attitudes of the Middle East and the West at the time.