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- Set in the 1930s Arab states at the dawn of the oil boom, the story centers on a young Arab prince torn between allegiance to his conservative father and his modern, liberal father-in-law.
- Follows Texas oil men who gamble everything for a chance to make millions. This season of Black Gold takes you inside the real life action, conflict, and competition as the race for America's buried treasure really heats up.
- Reveals the story of the boss atop a trillion-dollar industry who discovered a shocking truth 40 years ago, hid the evidence by creating a black ops conspiracy, and would keep the money flowing as the world burned.
- One local Niger Delta community's struggle against their own government and a multi-national oil corporation who has plundered their land and destroyed the environment.
- In the 1920s Texas, Indian farmer Charley Eagle is dreaming of winning the Kentucky Derby with his Black Hope horse but things change when oil is found on his land and the Black Gold colt is born.
- A riveting docu-thriller exposing the illegal trade in endangered wild orcas fueled by American business practices. Unprecedented access to activists, trainers, and journalists reveals the shocking truth behind the global orca trade.
- Ranger Jack finds himself butting heads with businessmen intent on drilling for oil next to a wildlife preserve--but friendly bear Gentle Ben puts his own spin on the sticky situation.
- A scuba team, a marine archaeologist and a Mexican historian join forces to reach the wreck of an historic Spanish galleon before a well-armed commercial expedition does.
- An in-depth look at the world of coffee and global trade.
- Santo must stop a terrorist organization from destroying the installations of a powerful oil company.
- James Miller Williams, Ira Jackson, Hugh Nixon Shaw, Bootjack Mary and Fairbank all have one thing in common: they smell opportunity when oil is discovered in the fields on 1850s Black Creek.
- "Black Water Green Gold" is a feature length documentary about an indigenous community fighting to save Lake Patzcuaro in Central Mexico. Their traditional lifestyle is threatened by the effects of globalized economy and climate change.
- Two friends join together to strike oil during the Oklahoma oil boom of the 1920s, and wind up fighting over the same oil wells and the same girl.
- Filmed entirely in the area of Tatums, Oklahoma, an all-black town: Oil has been discovered on the range-land nears Tatus, and all ranching had been abandoned to the drilling of wildcat oil-wells. Mart Ashton, owner of the Circle Bar Ranch, has also caught Black Gold Fever to the extent of using all his cash and selling his large herd of cattle to finance the cost of a drilling-rig and crew. On an adjoining tract, the Ohio Company brings in a well and Ashton is put in the position of drilling an off-set well within thirty days or lose all rights to drill on his own land. However, he has ran out of money and his driller, Pete Barkley, is scheming with Walter Wonder, cashier of the Ranchman's National Bank, to delay the drilling. He borrows the needed money from the bank, but Wonder accuses him of stealing it, and the U. S. Marshal jails him. His ranch foreman, Ace Brand, knows he is innocent but is unable to prove it. With no crew and only seven days left to bring in the well, it is up to Ace, "Peg" Reynolds, a one-legged cowboy, and Alice Anderson, Ace's sweetheart, to bring in the well.
- Showcasing how magnificent German Shepherd dogs have enriched and changed the lives of their human counterparts and how having one of these dogs in their lives have added challenges but bring so much joy and pleasure.
- This remarkable, award winning film traces the history of the infamous Wonthaggi State Coal mine. It was arguably the most dangerous mine in Australia and produced the strongest union. The film combines rare archive footage with inspiring interviews from some of the men and women that embodied the unique Wonthaggi spirit. It is a story of mate ship and community determination. From the first shafts hastily sunk in 1909, to the last whistle in 1968, Wonthaggi was a place of danger and industrial turmoil. Bent over with picks and shovels, working in a narrow and dangerous coal face, the Wonthaggi miners knew that disaster always lurked in the darkness. But the brutal nature of the work bred a solidarity that was both inspiring and truly unique. This small, loyal band of brave men, supported by their courageous women, transformed the face of Australian working life forever.
- TV MovieBlack Gold is the story of Jamaica, a budding attorney who straddles the fence between uptown dreams and downtown roots. But her dreams may be deferred when her mother dies, leaving her in control of the family business, a pawn shop called 'Black Gold.'
- Actress Mali Ann Rees talks with Welsh pioneers, Aleighcia Scott, Emily Pemberton, Nathan Brew and Natalie Jones to celebrate Black History Month, taking a fresh look at the intersection between race, identity, and language in Wales.
- An investigative point-of-view documentary about David Lavallee's journey down the Athabasca River and across Western Canada in search of answers about the battle between water and oil. Following an imaginary drop of water, and later an imaginary drop of oil, he discovers the threats to the third largest watershed in the world and two separate oceans. White Water, Black Gold is a film about the inextricable link between water and oil in our modern world.
- A gold mannequin is overtaken by nature in this surrealistic short by Oscar-nominated director PES.
- TV Movie
- "Black and Gold offers a potent portrait of bootstraps idealism in an embattled community ... this energetically packaged documentary deserves to be seen." -Dennis Harvey, VARIETY
- Dan O'Reilly, who has spent forty years working in oil fields, is about to strike oil when his land lease nears its end. J. C. Anderson of the Anderson Producing and Refining Corp. discovers that Dan's well is the richest in the history of Anderson's oil field, but because Dan's contract insures him a ten year additional lease if he strikes oil, Anderson tries to pay Dan to abandon his well. When Dan refuses, Anderson's men sabotage his drill. Penniless, Dan resigns himself to take the money, until his son Clifford, called "Fishtail," meets geologist Henry Langford, who promises to help. Henry then convinces Fishtail to go to school at night so that Henry can spend time with pretty schoolteacher Cynthia, who wants Fishtail to be the first O'Reilly to get an education. Then, when Henry discovers Anderson cheating the local independent contractors of a fair price for their oil, while unjustly foreclosing other leaseholders, he calls a town meeting. The townspeople confront Anderson, who appeases them, but the next day, while Dan rides the oil-drilling rig, the cables snap and he is killed. Henry is convinced Anderson is behind the murder. With two days left on the lease, Fishtail is nearly at oil sand when Anderson's thugs abduct Henry and Anderson tries to bribe Fishtail off the land. Fishtail refuses, so Anderson's men shut down the drill and knock him out. Henry, who has escaped, arrives in time to save Fishtail before Anderson's men dynamite the rig and the long-awaited oil is released. Cynthia, who has since fallen in love with Henry, then sends Fishtail to military school, and he returns a gentleman.
- A small California oil facing economic ruin, town pins its hopes for a better future on the upcoming presidential election.
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- A second music video, directed by Harmony Korine, was shot prior to the single release, but was not released until May 2012. The video features the band members wearing Baby Björns and being carried by giant doppelgängers of theirs, played by two Belmont Bruins men's basketball players.
- Fifty years ago oil was discovered in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Today, at 2.1 million barrels per day, Nigeria is the sixth largest oil-producing country in the world and a major oil partner of the United States. Although its oil industry generates millions of dollars in revenues daily, the average Niger Deltan struggles to survive on less than $1 per day. The Curse of the Black Gold exposes the enormous costs and devastating impact of oil exploitation in the region. The impassioned voices of Nigerian environmental and human rights activists and Nigerian poets describe how the convergence of government corruption, irresponsible practices of Big Oil and abject poverty, has created a militant movement for redress.
- The story behind the story of Standing Rock. Ripped from the headlines the story of what led to the largest and longest protest of its kind. When everyone is lying to everyone else who is left to tell the truth?
- Set in 2051 on what was once a Native American reservation, the film follows a tribe who tribe now occupies one of the largest remaining liquid oil fields in the world - forcing them into conflict with a powerful Chinese corporation.
- Miedzychod is a part of Poland, close to German border. It is known by beautiful, preserved nature, with dense forests swarming with rare birds, mushrooms and other plants, as well as 52 lakes rich with fish. Although one would expect that the locals should are not starving, they are actually poor. It has been like that since the World War II. Two years ago, the largest oil field in Poland was found under a local forest. Still, the local people do not care and simply ignore the fact that 'black gold' could make them very rich. Searching for an explanation of this apathy, a small film crew, made up of locals, enters Anrej's bar, enabling us to meet him, his guests, and other dwellers of Notecka Forest.
- A golden sky shines on a tree, creating a stunning combination of gold and black.
- Don Endicott and his Negro servant, Sam, are thrown off a moving train by three cardsharps who have cheated Don. Without funds, they ask for hospitality at the Atwood Ranch, but the daughter, Millie, has them chased off when Don mentions his name. In town, Don finds the cardsharps and recovers his money. He attempts to aid Millie and her family when he finds them in desperate financial straits, but she refuses his aid, believing him to be Big Tim Endicott, Don's father, the president of the oil syndicate that has been hounding the Atwoods and has burned their oil derrick in an attempt to get their land. The father shows up to close the deal but is frustrated. Endicott's henchman, Boyer, beats Don unconscious in a fight. Boyer relates matters to Endicott, who is disappointed in the apparently cowardly behavior of his son. Don recovers and defeats Boyer in a second fight, winning the respect of his father and approval of his love for Millie.
- Hand-drawn animation layered over stop-motion sequences of moving ink on drum skins.
- Neely, sent to pay the rent, falls for an oil salesman's glib line, but Bert saves the day by stealing his master's wallet so he can't purchase the stock. A dog runs away with the wallet, which is recovered only after a long chase over land and (through) water. The oil salesman tries to interest Alice in his proposition but she throws him out of the house, time after time. Neely again falls for the sales talk and gets beaten up by Alice, who orders Bert to throw all Neely's oil samples in the sink. While her husband is burying all his worthless shares, his pick strikes the buried waste pipe and up squirts a gusher. The gusher's source is discovered, however, and Neely swears off buying oil again.
- In a few years, the mining industry has turned the impoverished region of Yulin into China's own little Klondike or Kuwait. People stream like the possessed from far away to the mines to start just one kind of coal-related business or another and to realise their dream of overnight wealth. Most of them have to face up to the fact that it wasn't a short cut to a happy life. On the contrary, the mines collapse around the people without any consequences for those responsible. In three chapters, with a different narrative strategy in each, the documentary couple Li Xiaofeng and Jia Kai decipher the social mechanisms behind the Chinese coal rush and its human costs, and thereby gives us a better look at where the planet's new superpower is heading than many reports in the evening news.
- A woman fights three men for a well of petroleum. The four of them stand in a circle waiting for death to arrive.