Oil Industry Movies

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

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...

Cajun boy Alexander Napoleon Ulysses LaTour lives with his family and his beloved pet raccoon in the Louisiana bayou. When his father allows an oil...

Ewan's life is turned upside down when he loses his job in Aberdeen's oil industry and he has no idea how to deal with the consequences.

This action thriller narrates the tale of Gunpowder and Timipre, two natives of Oloibiri, the town where oil was first discovered in commercial...

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,...

The Play Speaks about the problem the Oil in the beginning of the 90s and the problems State of Kuwait facing during that era.

This documentary first aired in Britain in May 1994 during the height of the Ogoni conflict in which a small Nigerian minority, the Ogoni, rose up...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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