Oil Industry Movies

In an oil-scarce world, we know there are sacrifices to be made in the pursuit of energy. What no one expected was that a tiny Native community,...

Documentary about the two big resources in the North Atlantic, fish and oil, and the impact of their exploitation on the environment in various...

Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family...

The causes underlying the collapse of civilizations are usually traced to overuse of resources. As we write this, the world is reeling from economic...

In 1971, Bahrain, Qatar and the UAE ceased to be part of Britain’s empire in the Middle East and became fully independent states. BBC News...

From the acclaimed director of American Movie, the documentary follows former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter Michael Ruppert....

The imagination of history in Ecuador never thought that oil, “its redeeming hope”, discovered in the Lago Agrio No. 1 well, was going to...

The French researcher Bertrand Monnet visits pirates in Nigeria and Somalia to learn how they make money from oil theft and kidnapping.

A documentary about the psychological costs of working in Alberta's oil sands and the mental health crisis that's been ignored for a decade.

Through the eyes of ex-engineer, now filmmaker Gillian McKercher, Orphaned explores the huge task of cleaning up thousands of idle oil and gas wells...

The story will mostly take place in the town Oil Springs, Ontario, where the oil industry in North America was born. By making a case study of this...

Following the conclusion of the first World War, Alabamian brothers Edward and Douglas Sinclair are hired by President Woodrow Wilson to find their...

The environmental measures taken by the oil industry at the Sullom Voe terminal in the Shetlands.

Wiebo Ludwig is the leader of a Christian group who brought his family to live in Alberta, Canada, 25 years ago in order live a life according to...

A wildcatter and a geologist prospect for oil and love in West Texas.

What will it really take, to transition from oil and coal, to the energies of tomorrow? SWITCH goes where no film has gone before, deep into the...

We reveal how the oil industry has been secretly funding scientific studies, launching false media reports and systematically deceiving the public...

Lee Anne Schmitt explores California's landscape and past to document the history of one-time boom towns built and abandoned by the industries that...

Experts say over the next hundred years the "perfect storm" of population growth, resource depletion and climate change could converge with...