Oil Movies

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...

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.

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

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

"Kuwait in 2000" is a Kuwaiti comedy play that explores the future of Kuwait during, and after the decline of oil, produced on February 5, 1965

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...

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

An experimental dreamlike video rocking us smoothly through circular moves. The visual compositions have been created out of paint, oil and soap liqu...

An animated short film about oil.

The Super-Sex is a 1922 American silent comedy film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Robert Gordon, Charlotte Pierce and Tully Marshall.

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

Oil is a primary energy source in the world. Global oil consumption reached approximately 95 million barrels per day but oil fields' quality is consta...

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 i...

Introduction to the oil industry of India in the post-colonial period.