20. yüzyılın başında arazilerinde çıkan petrol, Amerikan yerlisi Osage Halkı’na servet kazandırarak onları bir gecede dünyanın en zengin insanları haline getirir. Ancak bu zenginlik, çok sayıda cinayete de sebep olur. Cinayetleri araştıranlar da aynı kaderi paylaşır. Ölenlerin sayısı yirmi dördü aştığında ise davaya henüz kurulma aşamasında olan FBI atanır. FBI dedektifi gizemli cinayetleri araştırırken korkunç bir sırrı da açığa çıkarır.
Upton Sinclair’in “Petrol-Oil!” adlı romanından uyarlanan filmin konusu, 20. yüzyılın başlarında geçer. Aile çiftliği arazisinde petrol çıkartma haklarını almasıyla birlikte servetini hızla katlayan bir işadamı ile (Daniel Day-Lewis), kısa sürede gelişip kalkınan kasabanın karizmatik genç rahibinin (Paul Dano) paralel öyküsü anlatılır. Güney Kaliforniya’da petrol bulunmasının ardından ortaya çıkan tablo, daha önceki yıllardaki “Altına Hücum” olgusunun eşdeğeridir. İşadamının Amerikan Rüyası kavramının farkına varması ve Amerikan Rüyası tarafından yok edilmesiyle birlikte filmin öyküsü hırs ve inançların irdelemesine dönüşür.
Norveç kıyılarında bir petrol platformu dramatik bir şekilde çöküyor ve araştırmacılar bunun çok daha ciddi bir şeyin başlangıcı olduğunu anladıklarında ne olduğunu bulmaya çalışıyorlar.
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.
A political thriller steeped in illegal oil trading, the Russian Mafia, and governmental cover-ups.
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.
From the acclaimed director of American Movie, the documentary follows former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter Michael Ruppert. He recounts his career as a radical thinker and spells out his apocalyptic vision of the future, spanning the crises in economics, energy, environment and more.
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.