Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit are sent to the Persian Gulf where they are eager to fight, but are forced to stay back from the action. Swofford struggles with the possibility of his girlfriend cheating on him, and as his mental state deteriorates, his desire to kill increases.
Les créateurs et la star de Borat vous offrent une comédie hallucinante sur ce qui arrive quand le pire dictateur du monde va en Amérique. Coincé à New York et privé de son pouvoir, Aladeen (Sacha Baron Cohen) est finalement forcé de vivre son pire cauchemar… le rêve américain. Préparez vous à mourir de rire avec cette comédie scandaleuse et honteusement drôle!
Luz et Bick Benedict dirigent le Reata Ranch au Texas. Lorsque Luz meurt, Jett Rink, un employé du ranch, hérite d'une parcelle de terrain où se trouve du pétrole. Devenu riche, il entre en conflit avec la famille qui l'avait employé.
Lorsque Daniel Plainview entend parler d’une petite ville de Californie où l’on dit qu’un océan de pétrole coulerait littéralement du sol, il décide d’aller tenter sa chance et part avec son fils H.W. à Little Boston. Dans cet endroit perdu où chacun lutte pour survivre et où l’unique distraction est l’église animée par le charismatique prêtre Eli Sunday, Plainview et son fils voient le sort leur sourire. Même si le pétrole comble leurs attentes et fait leur fortune, plus rien ne sera comme avant : les tensions s’intensifient, les conflits éclatent et les valeurs humaines comme l’amour, l’espoir, le sens de la communauté, les croyances, l’ambition et même les liens entre père et fils sont mis en péril par la corruption, la trahison… Et le pétrole.
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.
The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes uncovers an assassination plot with unsettling origins.
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.
In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey.
'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.
Set in Inner Mongolia, a physical setback causes a young woman to choose a suitor who can take care of her, as well as her disabled husband.
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.
Life on an offshore oil drilling rig is becoming a burden for one of the riggers, who feels lonely and is frequently visited by a lone black dog that appears from nowhere.
A seal witnesses its home change as it tries to adapt to a new reality.
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.
CRUDE IMPACT is a powerful and timely story that explores the interconnection between human domination of the planet and the discovery and use of oil. This documentary film exposes our deep rooted dependency on the availability of fossil fuel energy and examines the future implications of peak oil the point in time when the amount of petroleum worldwide begins a steady, inexorable decline.
«L’or du golfe» est un film documentaire qui nous transporte aux quatre coins du Golfe du St-Laurent alors que s’amorce une nouvelle vague d'exploration pétrolière au Québec. Après avoir vécu le bruit des foreuses en face de chez lui, Kevin Parent part à la rencontre des acteurs d’un conflit qui ne fait que commencer.
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.
