Oil Movies

Two friends join together to strike oil, court women, and battle an unscrupulous oilman politician during the Oklahoma oil boom of the 1920s.

Aging ex-con tries to stop his daughter from getting involved with shady characters.

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...

This film tells the story of World War II as experienced by the inhabitants of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, at the time a satellite of Moscow....

A documentary that follows Thomas Goltz and a group of riders on old Soviet motorcycles as they carry the first symbolic barrel of Caspian oil from...

A group of oil drillers of the Factory B, focused on success rather than praise, strive to find the oil despite the decision on the suspension of the...

A promotional video produced by the Alberta government in 1975, "The time of the tar sands", featuring Gordon Pinsent. credit: Archives of Alberta.

Black Snake Killaz is a feature-length documentary film about the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline. This film explores actions taken by water...

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

"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...

From Rockefeller's first oil wells in 1860 to the recent war in Iraq, oil has been the driving force behind the tragic history of the 20th century....

Millionaire Larry Duane is posing as his own chauffeur while touring the West and meets Molly Hennessey. They have a small romance until it is ended...

Lay Zee works on a farm and has won the heart of the farmer's daughter. There is oil on the farmland, and some swindlers are determined to get their...

The short film shows the process of oil extraction up to the delivery to the customer

Hoppy, California and Lucky take refuge from a storm inside a supposedly abandoned church outside a ghost town, only to meet a young woman and her...

Rancher Lew Remington is at odds with longtime rival Bob Randall. The two men battle over rights of oil land that borders both their properties.

America is addicted to oil. President George Bush said so… and now that phrase is echoed everywhere. But are we really “addicted”?...

Found footage short about oil.

Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family...