Sob o Sol do Arizona (1934)

Quando Plainview recebe uma misteriosa dica de que numa pequena cidade do Oeste um oceano de petróleo está revelar-se à superfície, dirige-se até lá com o seu filho, H.W., para tentar a sua sorte na pequena e pobre Little Boston. Nesta miserável cidade onde a maior atenção está nos fervorosos seguidores da igreja do carismático pregador Eli Sunday, Daniel Plainview e H.W. ganham a sorte grande comprando terras e descobrindo mais e mais poços de petróleo por explorar. Com o decorrer do tempo e o aumento da fortuna, nada se mantém igual e à medida que os conflitos vão aumentando todos os valores humanos – amor, esperança, comunidade, fé, ambição e mesmo os laços que unem pais e filhos – são ameaçados pela corrupção, pela decepção, ao ritmo dos fluxos de petróleo.

A Texas oil driller schemes to steal millions of dollars in oil.

In an effort to end family feuding, a young gypsy travels back in time to kill mammoths to ensure Hungary becomes rich by killing mammoths in order to create a massive oil reservoir. Things don't go entirely according to plan...

An oil engineer surrounded by foul play helps an heiress bring in a well.

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...

Um bandido que comete uma série de roubos e assassinatos consegue culpar os apaches pelos crimes, provocando uma guerra indígena.

No futuro o bem mais precioso é a gasolina, em virtude de uma guerra que acabou com os campos petrolíferos do Oriente Médio. Tendo combustível pode-se fugir da morte ou se dirigir a algum lugar para matar alguém. Neste contexto, Max resolve ajudar uma comunidade a defender sua refinaria contra uma gangue de motoqueiros.

O mais Inacreditável choque de culturas acontece nesta história hilária que descreve as mudanças na vida da Família Clampett que fica rica da noite para o dia quando descobrem petróleo no pântano atrás de seu casebre em Ozark. Incentivada a se mudar para Beverly Hills, a inocente e trabalhadora família é a isca perfeita para charlatões, impostores e aproveitadores.

Quatro aventureiros aceitam fazer o transporte de nitroglicerina por um trajeto de estradas precárias. A recompensa prometida é o único meio de ganhar dinheiro suficiente para poder deixar o vilarejo isolado da América Central no qual foram parar.

An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.

O cowboy Dan Somers e o magnata do petróleo Jim Hunk Gardner disputam os direitos de arrendamento de petróleo em terra indígena, bem como o amor de uma professora.

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?

An engineer makes a thieving entertainer work off her debts as a housekeeper at his jungle mining camp.

China's sky-rocketing growth and shortage of sufficient resources is forcing China to set its sights outside its borders in a frantic search for oil, but the major oil-producing countries are kept off-limits by the United States, forcing China to do business with the rogue states, African dictatorships, Iran and former Russian states - to get the oil they desperately need. Featuring field encounters, archival footage, news reports and maps to outline the latest threat in world geopolitics.

A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon is given the choice of jail or going with a rough-and-tumble oil driller's jungle oil-field in order to pay him back for being slipped a mickey and robbed.

A woman inherits an abandoned ranch whose estate is said to be haunted by "the Chooper," the sword-wielding ghost of a vengeance-seeking Indian, in this Ray Dennis Steckler shocker.

In 1913, in Oklahoma, oil derrick owner Lena Doyle, aided by her father and a hobo, is stubbornly drilling for oil despite the pressure from major oil companies to sell her land.

American businessmen and missionaries working in China are captured and held prisoner by a local warlord.

"Wildcatter" Dave Warren and his crew are trying to bring in a new oil well. Dave gives troublemaker Simmons a good thrashing and orders him off the site. In order to complete drilling Dave borrows $50,000 from investment banker J. T. Varley and also begins a romance with Varley's daughter Alice. Varley suffers market reverses and knowing that Dave is about to strike oil hires Simmons to wreck the rig so he can foreclose and take over.

Quando sua mãe morre, o valentão Billy Smith vai a Austrália para dar as más notícias à irmã. Lá chegando, porém, descobre que ela está desaparecida e decide investigar por conta própria, deixando uma trilha de destruição ao enfrentar, sozinho, a máfia local.