The Detection of Mineral Oil

Documentary on oil exploration, the phase before drilling.

Oil's Well That Ends Well

The stooges need money for their father's operation, so they head for the country to prospect for uranium. Instead of uranium, they discover oil on their father's property and all their troubles are solved.

Dr. Feelgood - Oil City - Confidential

Oil-Coated Umbrellas: Meinung

Once essential on rainy days in Taiwan, the handcrafted oil-paper umbrella from Meinung,was not only a symbol of local craftsmanship but also a major source of livelihood. However, as Taiwan rapidly shifted toward an ind

Richmond Oil Strike (Newsreel #25)

January '69, oil workers in Northern California struck, and for the first time, students at San Francisco State and University of California were asked to join the union in the struggle. This action added a new dimension

In Search of Oil and Sand

Oil and Sand was an extravagant film made by members of the Egyptian royal family and a few friends and relatives in 1952 about a coup d'état, shot just weeks before the royals were overthrown in a real coup. The complet

The Evolution of the Oil Industry

The Evolution of the Oil Industry is a short government-produced educational film that was designed to educate the general public about the petroleum and oil industries within America. It features footage of oil explorat

Armada Presents: Oil and Water

The Armada team has always been a group of skiers who have brought new life and unique perspective to an industry in need of change. The “oil in the water”. Take a journey into the lives of five of these skiers and see t

Land of Oil and Water

The oil companies are coming to Warren Cariou's home town. Oil sands operations in Alberta are expanding, which prompts Cariou - a writer and professor from Northern Saskatchewan - to journey back to his homeland to find

Zahra and the Oil Man

Zahra, the daughter to a Muslim street merchant, fights to save her father's struggling business in a changing Newark

North Sea Oil on Stream

A BAFTA award winning documentary depicting the opening of the North Sea Forties oil field by HM Queen Elizabeth II.

Crude: The Incredible Journey of Oil

Crude - the incredible journey of oil, from its birth deep within our dinosaur-inhabited past, to its ascendancy as the indispensable ingredient of modern life.

Thomas Goltz: An Oil Odyssey

A documentary that follows Thomas Goltz and a group of riders on old Soviet motorcycles as they carry the first symbolic barrel of Caspian oil from Baku to Ceyhan along the future BTC pipeline. Using rare historical foot

Midnight Oil - Armistice Day: Live At The Domain Sydney

In February 2017, Midnight Oil took to Sydney Harbour and announced The Great Circle World Tour. The Circle would begin where the band started out, in Sydney’s pubs, then circumnavigate the globe. It was to be their firs

Oil Gush Fire in Bibiheybat

The film was filmed in Bibi-Heybat, a suburb of Baku (now the capital of Azerbaijan), during a fire at the Bibi-Heybat oil field. The film was shot on 35mm film by the Lumiere brothers in 1898. On August 2 of the same ye

Oil Rocks: City Above the Sea

"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

Midnight Oil - Live at the Grand Rex

The Oil Gush in Balakhany

Dramatic view of an oil well fire in Baku.

The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror

Examines the link between oil interests and current U.S. military interventions. It includes original footage shot over a four-month period in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan as well as many interviews with a large array

Midnight Oil Saturday Night at the Capitol

Saturday Night at the Capitol An incendiary show from 1982 at the Capitol Theatre, Sydney, shot for the band by award-winning filmmaker Dave Bradbury on 27 November 1982 for ABC radio station Triple J. Track listing "