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,...

West Texas, a land of Oil and Blood. Rian is thrust into the center of a diabolical plot between two feuding Oil Barons, she must do everything she...

It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee...

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

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

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

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

Through the testimony of Manuel Taborda, a pioneer of labor organizing in Venezuela’s oil fields, this documentary revisits the experiences of...

A policewoman returns with her young daughter to her hometown to care for her dying mother. The murder of a young girl will keep her there longer...

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...

A short film documenting the massive Allied overland operation managed by PAIFORCE (Persia and Iraq force) during WWII. This film captures the brutal...

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

When layoffs are announced at a remote oilfield office, team morale deteriorates with both humorous, and heartbreaking, results. With support, and...

Documentary about power and class relations in the sociocultural context of Bahia, considering the history of oil extraction in the state.

Desperate, broken men chase their dreams and run from their demons in the North Dakota oil fields. A local Pastor's decision to help them has...

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

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...

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