Oil Movies

An adventurer tries to seize oil deposits in Mongolia .

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

A compelling documentary film four years in the making, The Pipe tells the story of the small Rossport community which has taken on the might of Shell...

An oil boom has drawn thousands to America’s Northern Plains in search of work. Against the backdrop of a cruel North Dakota winter, the stories of th...

Engineer Ilir wants to drill for oil in an area in which there exists no data from previous researchers. Faced with disagreement from his colleague, a...

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 de...

An engineer makes a thieving entertainer work off her debts as a housekeeper at his jungle mining camp.

An exploration of built and natural environments along the 800-mile length of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.

JEEPNEY visualizes the richly diverse cultural and social climate of the Philippines through its most popular form of mass transportation: vividly dec...

A group of oil drillers of the Factory B, focused on success rather than praise, strive to find the oil despite the decision on the suspension of the...

BP documentary film exploring the natural beauty of oil under the microscope, and through a variety of other techniques.

When the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise set sail in 2013 to protest the first ever oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean, none of the people on board could...

America is addicted to oil. President George Bush said so… and now that phrase is echoed everywhere. But are we really “addicted”? Our daily lives are...

Documentary telling the story of the shale oil industry and its lasting impact on the community of West Lothian. Presented by geologist Professor Iain...

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 li...

Two technicians foreign oil, along with the daughter of one of them, coming into the country to verify that there is a large oil field in the jungle a...

A promotional video produced by the Alberta government in 1975, "The time of the tar sands", featuring Gordon Pinsent. credit: Archives of Alberta.