Petrolia
Petrolia takes its name from a redundant oil drilling platform sat in the Cromarty Firth, Scotland. The film looks at the architecture of the oil industry along the Scottish coastline where oil and gas supplies are predi
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Petrolia takes its name from a redundant oil drilling platform sat in the Cromarty Firth, Scotland. The film looks at the architecture of the oil industry along the Scottish coastline where oil and gas supplies are predi
La Via del Petrolio is a three-part documentary Bernardo Bertolucci made for the Italian oil giant ENI that aired in 1967. The film was made following Bertolucci’s breakthrough second feature Before the Revolution, and t
In 1988, supported by François Mitterrand, Loïk Le Floch-Prigent ran for the presidency of Elf. Alfred Sirven, through Christine Deviers-Joncour, introduced him to Roland Dumas. A year later, Le Floch-Prigent was appoint
Melina and Segundo get married in a collective ceremony that is part of the electoral campaign of the People's Party candidate. Segundo begins to work at the Maracaibo Petroleum Company. He soon becomes involved in the m
In a Spanish town that has been dying of thirst for years, some Americans who claim to be experts in oil prospecting say that there is oil. Considering the evidence of the treasure that encloses his subsoil, the owner wi
A medium-length educational color film. Láďa, Honzík, and Karel wander around town, feeling a little bored. Then they meet an older man who offers them an adventure: flying back in time in a rocket. The boys gladly accep
"Oil Rocks" - behind the enigmatic name lies the first and largest offshore oil-platform ever built, a vast city in the middle of the Caspian Sea, built by Stalin in 1949. 60 years on, "Oil Rocks" is still operational an
A surreal road movie about a partially deaf teenager hitting the road in a beat up Lada to find the father who abandoned him at birth. The stunning feature film debut of acclaimed commercials writer/director Rob Sanders.
A man shipwrecked on a desert island desperately waits for help to come. An important discovery will change his situation... for the worse.
In 1900, Stepha, the vivacious 30 year old daughter of a wealthy couple, agrees to marry her cousin Paul, who has accumulated large debts as an Austrian army officer. Paul refuses to work or to consummate the marriage, a
Toumer, a young technocrat, denounces the domination of his country's economy by systematic corruption. His desire to put an end to these scandals triggers a series of events leading to an explosive solution.
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. As a vital and strategic raw material, it has been at the heart of all p
Through the testimony of Manuel Taborda, a pioneer of labor organizing in Venezuela’s oil fields, this documentary revisits the experiences of oil workers between 1920 and 1936. Their memories reveal a world marked by co
Short film about the formation and extraction of petroleum