Syriana
(Video) 

Based on the book entitled "See No Evil" by Robert Baer.

Originally released as an American motion picture in 2005.

Special features: A conversation with George Clooney (9 min.); "Make a Change, Make a Difference" [featurette] (12 min.); Deleted scenes (12 min.); Theatrical trailer (3 min.).

Director of photography, Robert Elswit ; edited by Tim Squyres ; music by Alexandre Desplat.

George Clooney (Bob Barnes), Matt Damon (Bryan Woodman), Jeffrey Wright (Bennett Holiday), Chris Cooper (Jimmy Pope), William Hurt (Stan), Mazhar Munir (Wasim Khan), Tim Blake Nelson (Danny Dalton), Amanda Peet (Julie Woodman), Christopher Plummer (Dean Whiting), Alexander Siddig (Prince Nasir Al-Subaai).

There is less oil than the world requires, and that will make some people rich and others dead. Career CIA field operative Bob Barnes is sorting out his midcareer issues--his bosses want him quietly confined to a desk job. Bryan Woodman, an expatriate in Geneva, becomes the financial adviser to idealistic Gulf Prince Nasir. Corporate lawyer Bennett Holiday is finessing the questionable merger of two powerful U.S. oil companies. In Prince Nasir's country, meanwhile, young Pakistani laborer Wasim succumbs to the lure of radical Islam, seeking refuge from the dusty oil fields and crowded hostels in the tranquility of a madrasa. In the labyrinthine, interconnected worlds of espionage and politics, international finance and law, oil and radical Islam, motives and convictions can shape lives, or destroy them.

MPAA rating: Rated R; for violence and language.

DVD; Region 1; Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround; anamorphic widescreen, presentation aspect ratio 2.35:1.

In English or Français, with optional subtitles in English, Français or Español; closed-captioned in English.