Oscar-Nominated Film Gives Children's View of North Dakota Oil Boom

Among this year's Academy Award nominees is "White Earth," a documentary about the oil boom in North Dakota. The state has a glut of well-paying jobs and one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation, but the oil business has changed lives and the landscape in other ways, too, as the film shows through the eyes of children. VOA’s Rosanne Skirble reports.



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