Slaughterhouse es un internado de élite en el que se prepara a los jóvenes para el poder y la grandeza. Sin embargo, un inesperado acontecimiento sacudirá literalmente los cimientos de su mundo.
Steve Butler (Damon) un ejecutivo de una gran empresa, llega a un pequeño pueblo con su compañera de trabajo, Sue Thomason (Frances McDormand), para comprar los derechos de perforación a los propietarios de las tierras. En esa población, asolada por la crisis económica de los últimos años, Steve tendrá ocasión de reconsiderar lo que ha sido su vida hasta ese momento.
Un día, el director de cine estadounidense Josh Fox recibió una carta en la que una compañía energética le ofrecía arrendar parte de un terreno de su propiedad en el que se encontraba un importante yacimiento de gas natural, que la compañía en cuestión quería perforar y explotar. Inseguro acerca de la decisión que debía tomar, Fox inició un viaje a través de 24 estados de Estados Unidos para averiguar las consecuencias de la explotación de gas natural. Desde Pennsylvania hasta Utah, de un extremo al otro de Estados Unidos, Fox fue descubriendo que en aquellas zonas en las que el gas natural es explotado el los habitantes no podían encender un mechero cerca del grifo sin que el agua corriente se prendiese en fuego debido a la contaminación por gas. De ese viaje nació GasLand.
Two years ago, Josh Fox introduced us to hydraulic fracturing with his Oscar®-nominated exposé Gasland. Now this once-touted energy source has become a widely discussed, contentious topic. In his follow-up, Fox reveals the extreme circumstances facing those affected by fracking, from earthquakes to the use of federal anti-terror psychological operations tactics. Gasland Part II is the definitive proof that issues raised by fracking cannot be ignored for long.
A fracking crew drills on sacred Native American land, unleashing an ancient demon. There are only two ways out of the woods, succumb to the demon or die.
Cuando un estudiante de cine y sus dos amigos van al condado de Kern para rodar un documental, allí se topan con una misteriosa familia y tendrán que intentar sobrevivir a toda costa.
When two people meet one night in London, their relationship blossoms and fractures, intertwined with impending societal collapse.
Fracking the System is a political thriller documentary from the front lines of climate justice activism in Colorado. When a fracking mega-site gets moved from a White neighborhood to a BIPOC neighborhood, a concerned mother fights to try and stop it. This is an investigative exposé about the harms of fracking, the lengths to which the government is complacent with industrial pollution, and the nefarious tactics that the oil and gas industry uses to undermine democratic elections.
Chanda Chevannes follows scientist Dr. Sandra Steingraber as she makes speeches against fracking and gets arrested protesting “the industrialization of the Finger Lakes.”
In a small rural town in Pennsylvania, the refuge of a rare salamander and the only source of
clean drinking water for 700 people is threatened by the installation of a fracking waste injection
well, prompting community members to band together to fight for the rights of their people and
nature.
A social statement on the irreversible and detrimental impact of gas and oil exploration on our planet and in particular the impact that hydraulic fracturing or 'fracking' will have on Kainaiwa, or the Blood Reserve in Canada. This film was shot with a completely Indigenous cast and crew.
In the 1960s, the US government came up with an experimental plan supported by the oil companies to try using nuclear explosions to extract natural gas in the American West. The tests set for Wyoming were known as the Wagon Wheel Project.
Frackman tells the story of accidental activist Dayne Pratzky and his struggle against international gas companies. Australia will soon become the world's biggest gas exporter as more than 30,000 'fracked' wells are sunk in the state of Queensland where Dayne lives. He and his neighbours have unwittingly become the centre of a massive industrial landscape and they have no legal right to stop mining on their land. Dayne embarks on a journey that transforms him from conservative pig-shooter to sophisticated global activist as the Frackman. He meets the people drawn into a battle that is crossing the ideological divide, bringing together a peculiar alliance of farmers, activists and political conservatives. Along the way Dayne encounters love, tragedy and triumph.
When the Northern Rivers of NSW community found their home being threatened by gas field industrialization, a critical mass of citizens from all walks of life responded to the call.Told through the eyes of the "Protectors" over a five-year period and inter-cut with fresh insight from some of the world's leading social commentators, this feature documentary captures and celebrates what is described as the non-violent 'Eureka Stockade' of our time.