Fires of Kuwait (1992)
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Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
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Fires of Kuwait is a 1992 American documentary film on the Kuwaiti oil fires directed by David Douglas. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film was the winner of the 2005 Hall of Fame Award from Giant Screen Cinema Association. The documentary focuses on the international effort to extinguish Kuwait's burning oilfields in the aftermath of the Gulf War.
A number of meteorologists and scientists including Carl Sagan deduced that the smoke released by the oil fires would cause catastrophic changes to the global climate. But nothing of the sort ever transpired.
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