Oil 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.

An adventurer tries to seize oil deposits in Mongolia .

From Rockefeller's first oil wells in 1860 to the recent war in Iraq, oil has been the driving force behind the tragic history of the 20th century....

A spirited dressmaker's small store flourishes into a business empire in the midst of the Texas oil boom of the 1940s.

What kind of world power is Iran becoming, and how will Western countries deal with it?

Black Snake Killaz is a feature-length documentary film about the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline. This film explores actions taken by water...

A man (Jack Holt) wins his best friend's wife (Fay Wray) and seems to be plotting to ruin the man's oil business.

Roy is an oil prospector. His efforts to get drilling rights on an old Spanish land grant are countered by gamblers from an off-shore gambling boat...

Brazil, the 1920s. The sadistic colonel Minas massacres the hometown of a famous cangaceiro (a kind of revolutionary bandit). The only survivor is a...

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...

A Texas oil driller schemes to steal millions of dollars in oil.

It’s a classic David vs. Goliath scenario: in the oil and gas strongholds of Louisiana's River Parishes and Appalachia's Rust Belt, where false...

American businessmen and missionaries working in China are captured and held prisoner by a local warlord.

The map of an American city goes on a quest across the world to find oil in order to feed its body, made of streets, highways and freeways.

Ben, a former Navy officer now works on a rig as the guy in charge, but since a lot of crew keeps dying whilst diving and planting the rig in the sea...

The short film shows the process of oil extraction up to the delivery to the customer

This film tells the story of World War II as experienced by the inhabitants of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, at the time a satellite of Moscow....

An oil-field worker from Texas journeys to Australia to look for his missing sister, and his search winds up getting him involved with a violent...