Petrol sondaj kulesi Deepwater Horizon'da çalışan 126 kişilik ekip, 20 Nisan 2010'da her zamanki gibi çalışmalarını sürdürmektedir. Hepsi vardiyanın sonuna gelip bir an önce karaya çıkmayı ve kendilerini bekleyenlere kavuşmayı arzu etmektedir. Ancak akşam saatlerinde yaşanan şiddetli patlamalar, herkesi büyük bir şoka uğratır. Durduralamayan ve sonrasında günlerce sürecek yangından sağ kurtulabilmek için mücadele eden ekip, cehennemi andıran bir ölüm kalım savaşının ortasında kalacaktır. 2010 Nisan'ında BP'ye ait Deepwater Horizon petrol platformunun Meksika Körfezi'nde infilak etmesiyle doğa, son yılların en büyük çevre felaketlerinden birine tanık olmuştu. Okyanusta yaşanan ve 11 kişinin ölmesine 17 kişinin de yaralanmasına neden olan trajedinin son anlarını anlatan yapım, 156 milyon $'a maloldu.
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.
The story of a little loggerhead turtle, as she follows in the path of her ancestors on one of the most extraordinary journeys in the natural world. Born on a beach in Florida, she rides the Gulf Stream up towards the Arctic and ultimately swims around the entire North Atlantic across to Africa and back to the beach where she was born. But the odds are stacked against her; just one in ten thousand turtles survive the journey.
1971 post civil rights San Francisco seemed like the perfect place for a black Korean War veteran and his family to realize their dream of economic independence, and a chance for him to be his own boss. Charlie Walker would soon find out how naive he was. In a city full of impostors and naysayers, he refused to take "No" for an answer. That is, until a catastrophic disaster opened a door that had never been open to a black man before. This is a story about what happened when he stepped through that door with both feet.
Barker White documents the environmental impact of the massive BP spill.
HBO Documentary Films Presents the story of the effort to save the 895th surviving oiled pelican in Louisiana, showing how conservationists, government agencies and wildlife activists joined forces to preserve this one life.
On March 24, 1989, the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in the pristine waters of Alaska's Prince William Sound, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil. Jean-Michel Cousteau, son of Jacques Cousteau, takes us on a voyage to investigate first-hand the devastating impact of the U.S.'s largest oil spill. Amid the majestic mountains and ice floes of this serene setting, the leaking oil spreads like a virus staining and often killing everything it encounters. Harbor seals, sea otters, and bald eagles fall victim to the tragic accident.
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.
This is a film about the response by a community to New Zealand’s largest environmental disaster, seen through the eyes of that community. The film captures the shock, anger and grief driven into the heart of the local community, but also the humour, purpose and overwhelming positivity when people join together with a common goal.