Crude Impact (2006)

『ブルーノ』などのお騒がせ男サシャ・バロン・コーエンが、世界一危険な独裁者を熱演する痛快爆笑ムービー。それまで欲望のままに生きてきた暴君が、ひょんなことからニューヨークに渡り、生まれて初めて庶民の世界を垣間見る様子をブラックな笑いと共に描き出す。将軍の右腕を、『ガンジー』などの名優ベン・キングズレーが好演。観る者を爆笑の渦に巻き込みつつ、時代背景を反映した痛烈な社会批判も込めた力作に脱帽する。

代々海兵隊員を輩出してきた家系に生まれ、自身も父と同じ道を歩むべく、1988年に18歳で海兵隊に志願した青年、アンソニー・スウォフォード。過酷な訓練を耐え抜き、第7海兵連隊第2大隊司令部中隊付きSTAの前哨狙撃兵として1990年の夏、湾岸戦争の為サウジアラビアへと派遣された。使命感に燃える若き海兵隊員たちとアンソニーだったが、派遣先で待っていたのは果てしない砂漠と訓練、そしてひたすら待機する日々だった。＜1990年に中東へと派兵されたアメリカ海兵隊員、アンソニー・スウォフォードの湾岸戦争体験記『ジャーヘッド/アメリカ海兵隊員の告白』（2003年出版）を原作としている。監督は『アメリカン・ビューティー』のサム・メンデス。一兵士の視点を通し、これまでの戦争映画とは違い、戦闘シーンがほとんど無く、変わった切り口で現代の戦争を描いている。表題になっているジャーヘッドとは、海兵隊員の刈り上げた頭がジャー（蓋のついたガラス瓶）のように見える事からつけられた蔑称である。＞

石油ブームに沸く20世紀初頭のカリフォルニア。鉱山労働者のプレインビューは、石油が沸く源泉があるという情報を耳にする。息子とともに石油採掘事業に乗り出したプレインビューは、異様なまでの欲望で富と権力を手にしていく。

Forrest Taft is an environmental agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegis Oil's corrupt CEO is the kind of person who doesn't care whether or not oil spills into the ocean or onto the land—just as long as it's making money for him.

テキサスの大牧場主のもとに、東部の女性が嫁いできた。東部と西部の気質の違いから、彼女は当初から苦労を強いられる。やがて二人の子供も成長し、親もとから巣立っていく……。テキサスの雄大な自然を舞台に、ある一家の30年に渡る人生を描いた大河ドラマ。

石油利権が渦巻く中東を舞台に、ベテランCIA工作員の暗躍をドキュメンタリー・タッチで描いた政治サスペンス。改革に意欲的な王子ナシールが王位継承権を持つ中東のとある小国。長年危険な諜報活動に従事してきたCIA工作員のボブ・バーンズは息子の大学進学を機に引退を決意する。そんなボブに最後の極秘指令が下される…。

Forget all you have heard about how “Renewable Energy” is our salvation. It is all a myth that is very lucrative for some. Feel-good stuff like electric cars, etc. Such vehicles are actually powered by coal, natural gas… or dead salmon in the Northwest.

中米ベネズエラ、ラス・ピエドラス。500km先の油田で起こった火事を消すために、マリオら4人の荒くれ者たちが、大量のニトログリセリンを運ぶ仕事を請け負う。少しの振動で爆発しかねないニトロ。命懸けの仕事だが、4人は一攫千金に挑む。現場に向かう2台のトラック。その行く手に恐るべき難関が待ち構える…。

An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.

'The Oilprince' is an unscrupulous businessman. He looks forward to a lucrative deal with the "Western Arizona Bank'. He sells the bank oil wells at Shelly Lake that do actually not exist. The Oilprince learns that the colonists would like to settle at Shelly Lake. So The Oilprince exchanges the scout of the settlers by one of his minions to give them another route. But soon The Oilprince has to recognize that he has not counted on Winnetou, the righteous leader of the Apaches, and his blood brother Old Surehand.

Inspector Rizzo and Marshal Caputo go to Egypt and look for Professor Cerullo, who is missing.

A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of the preparation for a major attack in the North African campaign. Sea of Sand was distributed in the US in a shortened version, Desert Patrol.

中国内モンゴルの北西部、事故で下半身不随となった夫と幼い子どもたちと暮らすトゥヤー（ユー・ナン）。砂漠化の進む草原で朝から晩まで畑仕事や水くみ、羊の放牧に明け暮れるが、寝たきりの夫を抱えた厳しい生活と、日々の重労働から彼女の体は限界に達していた。そしてトゥヤーは生きるため、家族への愛からある決断を下す。

Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack's nonfiction treatise Crude Awakening joins Maxed Out, An Inconvenient Truth, and other recent documentaries devoted to unearthing and exploring forces that are untying the connective threads of contemporary society. The subject at hand is crude oil - specifically, the depletion of petroleum from the Earth, in an era when consumption threatens to exceed supply.

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 dripping in oil. It’s in virtually everything we use and fuels everything we do. To be sure, it is something to worry about. Are we going to run out? Aren’t we fighting wars for oil? But, if we do slow the flow, how will that change the way we live? When it comes to what we’re told about oil, there’s rhetoric and then there’s reality. Who can we believe? The media? Politicians? Environmental activists? You’d be surprised. For nearly ten years, journalist turned media analyst MARK MATHIS has studied our use of oil. And what he found shocked him so thoroughly that he made a movie about the misinformation, distortions and even outright lies about oil. We do have an “oil problem” in America (and the world), but it’s not what you’ve been told. So, it’s time to Fill Up on Truth… for a change.

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

It’s simple math: we can burn less than 565 more gigatons of carbon dioxide and stay below 2°C of warming — anything more than that risks catastrophe for life on earth. The only problem? Fossil fuel corporations now have 2,795 gigatons in their reserves, five times the safe amount. And they’re planning to burn it all — unless we rise up to stop them.

Stand-up comedian Robert Newman gets to grips with the wars and politics of the last hundred years, from WWI through to the 2003 invasion of Iraq; but rather than adhering to the history we were fed at school, this show places oil centre stage as the cause of all commotion. This innovative history programme is based around Robert Newman's stand-up act and supported by resourceful archive sequences and stills with satirical impersonations of historical figures from Mayan priests to Archduke Ferdinand.

Tomorrow’s Power is a feature length documentary that showcases three communities around the world and their responses to economic and environmental emergencies they are facing. In the war-torn, oil-rich Arauca province in Colombia, communities have been building a peace process from the bottom up. In Germany activists are pushing the country to fully divest from fossil-fuel extraction and complete its transition to renewable energy. In Gaza health practitioners are harnessing solar power to battle daily life-threatening energy blackouts in hospitals.