Oil Industry Movies

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

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...

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

In this evocative meditation, a disturbing link is made between the resource extraction industries’ exploitation of the land and violence...

Reel 1, an oil field is located, drilled, brought in, and pumped. Shows the Garber Field in Oklahoma. Reel 2 shows how pipe is laid and cleaned. One...

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

Training and Customer Service information film sponsored by the Marketing Retail Sales Department of the Standard Oil Company. Features product...

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...

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.

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

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

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.

Trade union leader Manuel Taborda, a pioneer of workers' organisations in the oil industry, recounts his experiences and those of his colleagues from...

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

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...

WIEBO'S WAR tells the story of a Christian community, at war with the oil and gas industry. Wiebo Ludwig is a suspect in a series of pipeline...

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