Oil Industry Movies

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...

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,...

A vaporwave psychological thriller about landmen traveling to North Dakota to obtain rights to undeveloped land, owned by a man who hates the oil...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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.

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

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...

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...

Moving between a local microcosm and the global oil crisis, H2Oil weaves together a collection of compelling stories of people who are at the front...

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.