Collapse

There's a documentary flying under the radar called Collapse. The film is available on demand from some cable providers and also playing in limited theatrical venues. Director Chris Smith has made some of the best docs of the last 15 years including Home Movie, The Yes Men, American Movie and the brilliant but rarely seen American Job (1996). Smith certainly ranks alongside other contemporary doc makers like Michael Moore or Errol Morris and is as idiosyncratic as they are while still maintaining a signature style.
Collapse takes place in a single room with a single man speaking to the camera. Smith aids the narration of Michael Ruppert with lots of appropriate vintage news clips and images. Unlike a similar one-man doc subject, Morris' Fog of War, Collapse isn't a man admitting past political adjectives and mistakes but rather Ruppert predicting a gloom and doom future to our economy and way of life.
Ruppert covers peak oil, transportation, electricity, food and how it's all tied in to our way of life. He explains derivatives in a manner so concise as to negate a similar explanation in Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story. Collapse is as Ruppert details a story of "infinite growth versus finite energy."
You'll want to watch Collapse twice or at least take notes once through because the information being hurled is so fascinatingly apocalyptic. While you will have heard some of what Ruppert spouts in other formats he delivers his message in a succinct manner with a bow on top.
Ruppert could be the Smoking Man from the X Files he's so full of mystery, at least that's the way Smith, who's only heard off camera, presents him. One of the strengths of Collapse is the way Smith allows Ruppert the emotional freedom to break down in the middle of his rant.