Petrolia

Una plataforma petrolífera se hunde dramáticamente en la costa noruega, y los investigadores intentan averiguar qué ha pasado cuando se dan cuenta de que esto es solo el comienzo de algo aún más grave.

Miembros de la tribu Osage de los Estados Unidos, son asesinados bajo misteriosas circunstancias en la década de 1920 provocando una importante investigación por el FBI involucrando a J. Edgar Hoover.

From the acclaimed director of American Movie, the documentary follows former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter Michael Ruppert. He recounts his career as a radical thinker and spells out his apocalyptic vision of the future, spanning the crises in economics, energy, environment and more.

Dos ganaderos se alían para proteger sus tierras de los explotadores de petróleo. Los dos se sienten unidos en la lucha contra el poderoso terrateniente, las inclemencias del tiempo, la difícil tarea de recuperar el ganado desperdigado por la montaña y el peligro de una sociedad petrolífera.

Desperate, broken men chase their dreams and run from their demons in the North Dakota oil fields. A local Pastor's decision to help them has extraordinary and unexpected 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 life and upward mobility. As the population of suburban sprawl has exploded in the past 50 years Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream. But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge...

Toronto, Canadá, 1899. William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950) cree fervientemente que está destinado a convertirse en Primer Ministro, pero para conseguirlo deberá luchar primero contra sus obsesiones personales y vencer los muchos obstáculos que encontrará en su tortuoso camino hacia el poder.

An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war and the selfish interests of a few, belligerent politicians and captains of industry, damaging the welfare of the majority of mankind, impoverishing the weakest, greedily devouring the limited resources of the Earth.

A pesar de la crisis del petróleo debido a la guerra de Oriente Medio, un joven inversor de banca (Slater) está a punto de hacer una delicada transacción de compra de crudo. Al mismo tiempo, tiene un lío con una joven recién graduada en económicas, una chica tan idealista como atractiva, que correrá con él una arriesgada aventura.

Experts say over the next hundred years the "perfect storm" of population growth, resource depletion and climate change could converge with catastrophic results. The scenarios in Earth 2100 are not a prediction of what will happen but rather a warning about what might happen.

The idyllic life of a young Cajun boy and his pet raccoon is disrupted when the tranquility of the bayou is broken by an oil well drilling near his home.

Documentary about the two big resources in the North Atlantic, fish and oil, and the impact of their exploitation on the environment in various countries on both sides of the Atlantic.

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 lines of the biggest industrial project in human history: Canada's tar sands. H2Oil is a feature-length documentary that traces the wavering balance between the urgent need to protect and preserve fresh water resources and the mad clamoring to fill the global demand for oil. It is a film that asks: what is more important, water or oil? Will the quest for profit overshadow efforts to protect public health and the environment in Canada's richest province?

Las causas que subyacen al colapso de las civilizaciones suelen atribuirse a la sobreexplotación de los recursos. Mientras escribimos esto, el mundo se tambalea por el caos económico, el pico del petróleo, el cambio climático, la degradación medioambiental y la agitación política. Cada día, los titulares repiten historias de escándalos y traición a la confianza pública. No hace falta que exijamos con indignación el fin del actual sistema mundial: parece que ya se está desmoronando. Pero los actos de valor, compasión y altruismo abundan, incluso en los lugares más dañados. Al documentar la resistencia de las personas más afectadas por la guerra y la represión, y el heroísmo de los que salen a la luz para enfrentarse a la crisis, END:CIV ilumina una salida a esta locura que todo lo consume y a un futuro más sano. Con el apoyo de la narración de Jensen, la película nos pide que actuemos como si realmente amáramos esta tierra.

This action thriller narrates the tale of Gunpowder (RMD) and Timipre (Olu Jacobs), two natives of Oloibiri, the town where oil was first discovered in commercial quantity in Nigeria. Gunpowder engages in violent struggle in protest to the squalid living conditions in his community despite their oil wealth; accusing Timipre’s generation of doing nothing whilst their land was exploited and plundered. (Amarachukwu Iwuala)

The imagination of history in Ecuador never thought that oil, “its redeeming hope”, discovered in the Lago Agrio No. 1 well, was going to mean the beginning of the worst environmental catastrophe on the planet. Thirty years of operation and exploitation of the Texaco company, forever transformed the rivers and estuaries, the forests and the life of the indigenous communities in the northern Amazon of Ecuador.

Over the course of a year, film follows Vancouver Pride Society president Ken Coolen to various international Pride events, including Poland, Hungary, Russia, Sri Lanka and others where there is great opposition to pride parades. In North America, Pride is complicated by commercialization and a sense that the festivals are turning away from their political roots toward tourism, party promotion and entertainment. Christie documents the ways larger, more mainstream Pride events have supported the global Pride movement and how human rights components are being added to more established events. In the New York sequence, leaders organize an alternative Pride parade, the Drag March, set up to protest the corporatization of New York Pride. A parade in São Paulo, the world's largest Pride festival, itself includes a completely empty float, meant to symbolize all those lost to HIV and to anti-gay violence.

When layoffs are announced at a remote oilfield office, team morale deteriorates with both humorous, and heartbreaking, results. With support, and often-questionable guidance from her co-workers, new engineer Wendy must navigate personal ethics and corporate industry within one of the world's most controversial industries.

WIEBO'S WAR tells the story of a Christian community, at war with the oil and gas industry. Wiebo Ludwig is a suspect in a series of pipeline bombings near his farm. The bombings echo a campaign of sabotage he waged 10 years ago: barricading roads, blowing up wells, culminating in the unsolved death of a teen aged girl. The Ludwigs live according to their religious values. They are self-sufficient in food and energy, but isolated, with seven unmarried adult children, and 38 grandchildren. They believe that those who don't share their beliefs, like filmmaker David York, are living in terrible darkness.

Director Nicole Torre directed this documentary about the America´s oil industry. The Oil Barons, Wildcatters, and roughnecks and their long struggle to feed America's ferocious oil appetite. Step inside the oil culture to understand just how the USA became so addicted and why Houston believes we must go "Green" for a secure domestic energy future. .