Oil Industry Movies

In 1971, Bahrain, Qatar and the UAE ceased to be part of Britain’s empire in the Middle East and became fully independent states. BBC News...

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...

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.

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Miras (Heritage) looks at the activities of the Nobel Brothers in the oil industry of Azerbaijan, one of the world’s oldest oil producers....

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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...

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