Durante os anos de 1920, nas terras ricas em petróleo da Nação Osage, no estado norte-americano do Oklahoma, uma sucessão de assassinatos brutais, que ficou conhecida como o Reino do Terror, desencadeia uma investigação em grande escala por parte do recém-formado FBI.
Quando Plainview recebe uma misteriosa dica de que numa pequena cidade do Oeste um oceano de petróleo está revelar-se à superfície, dirige-se até lá com o seu filho, H.W., para tentar a sua sorte na pequena e pobre Little Boston. Nesta miserável cidade onde a maior atenção está nos fervorosos seguidores da igreja do carismático pregador Eli Sunday, Daniel Plainview e H.W. ganham a sorte grande comprando terras e descobrindo mais e mais poços de petróleo por explorar. Com o decorrer do tempo e o aumento da fortuna, nada se mantém igual e à medida que os conflitos vão aumentando todos os valores humanos – amor, esperança, comunidade, fé, ambição e mesmo os laços que unem pais e filhos – são ameaçados pela corrupção, pela decepção, ao ritmo dos fluxos de petróleo.
An oil platform dramatically goes down on the Norwegian coast, and researchers try to find out what happened when they realize this is just the start of something even more serious.
An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war and the selfish interests of a few, belligerent politicians and captains of industry, damaging the welfare of the majority of mankind, impoverishing the weakest, greedily devouring the limited resources of the Earth.
Numa atuação brilhante, Christian Slater vive Tom Hansen, um alto executivo de uma companhia de Wall Street. Ao mesmo tempo em que recebe uma oportunidade profissional ele se depara com uma intriga de interesses internacionais pelo petróleo. Depois que se envolve num caso ardente com uma colega de escritório vivida por Selma Blair, o casal passa a ser visado e suas vidas entram em risco. Um filme excitante, inteligente e real!
Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex-suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and Frank fight back through stampedes, jealousy, betrayal, and sabotage... they eventually find love.
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 than expected. She will try to solve a case that no one seems to care about, risking everything on the path.
Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family life and upward mobility. As the population of suburban sprawl has exploded in the past 50 years Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream. But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge...
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 extraordinary and unexpected consequences.
The idyllic life of a young Cajun boy and his pet raccoon is disrupted when the tranquility of the bayou is broken by an oil well drilling near his home.
O filme leva-nos através de uma extensa entrevista com Michael Ruppert, um ex-policia de Los Angeles que se tornou um jornalista freelance. Ele foi pioneiro ao prever a crise financeira atual numa altura em que a maioria dos analistas em Wall Street e Washington a negava.
When layoffs are announced at a remote oilfield office, team morale deteriorates with both humorous, and heartbreaking, results. With support, and often-questionable guidance from her co-workers, new engineer Wendy must navigate personal ethics and corporate industry within one of the world's most controversial industries.
The Play Speaks about the problem the Oil in the beginning of the 90s and the problems State of Kuwait facing during that era.
The environmental measures taken by the oil industry at the Sullom Voe terminal in the Shetlands.
The imagination of history in Ecuador never thought that oil, “its redeeming hope”, discovered in the Lago Agrio No. 1 well, was going to mean the beginning of the worst environmental catastrophe on the planet. Thirty years of operation and exploitation of the Texaco company, forever transformed the rivers and estuaries, the forests and the life of the indigenous communities in the northern Amazon of Ecuador.
Documentary about the two big resources in the North Atlantic, fish and oil, and the impact of their exploitation on the environment in various countries on both sides of the Atlantic.
The French researcher Bertrand Monnet visits pirates in Nigeria and Somalia to learn how they make money from oil theft and kidnapping.
Filmed in the Inner Mongolian portion of the Gobi Desert, this film follows a group of oil field workers as they go about their daily routine.
Experts say over the next hundred years the "perfect storm" of population growth, resource depletion and climate change could converge with catastrophic results. The scenarios in Earth 2100 are not a prediction of what will happen but rather a warning about what might happen.