A List of Films About Oil and Fracking | Green Planet Films Blog
Looking for films about the Oil Industry? Fracking? As news of fracking, Keystone Pipeline XL and the BP oil spill disaster fills the media landscape, more than ever we are forced to take a hard look...
View ArticleThere Will Be Blood (2007) - IMDb
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. With Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Ciarán Hinds, Martin Stringer. A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in...
View ArticleThe 5 slickest oil movies of all time | Financial Post
Promised Land grossed less than the cost of two Marcellus wells, and is unlikely to make a dent in public consciousness to warrant a government policy change. Here is a list of analyst-recommended...
View ArticleThe Last Winter (2006) - Moviefone
Plot Summary: Sent to evaluate the environmental impact of oil drilling in the Arctic, James Hoffman (James Le Gros) clashes with the drilling crew's chief (Ron Perlman), who wants to get the job done....
View ArticleThe Fires Of Kuwait (1992) - Moviefone
Plot Summary: Shot on location, "Fires Of Kuwait" takes viewers to the very center of blazing fields of out-of-control oil fires. The film, which was nominated for an Academy Award, highlights the...
View Article"Boom Town" Burkburnett |American Oil & Gas History
A wildcat well comes in on S. L. Fowler’s farm near a small North Texas community on July 29, 1918. The subsequent drilling boom along the Red River will make Burkburnett famous – two decades before...
View ArticleMark Wahlberg and the Deepwater Horizon? Why I’m skeptical but cautiously...
I've written in the past about my skepticism when it comes to Hollywood depicting the oil & gas industry, and unfortunately I don't see much reason or incentive for this film to take a different...
View ArticleBig Picture: The Top Ten O&G Movies
Today we are taking a look at the Top Ten Oil & Gas Movies of all time. Few other industries have received as much attention on the big screen as O&G has. Hollywood's portrayal of our industry...
View Article"Tulsa" (1949)
<< Previous 10 of 11Next >>Cast: Susan Hayward and Robert Preston Plot: The film centers on the oil boom in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the 1920s. Rancher Nelse Lansing is killed by an oil well...
View Article"The Abyss" (1989)
<< Previous 7 of 11Next >>Cast: Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael BiehnPlot: The US Navy enlists a civilian diving team to search for an American nuclear submarine that...
View Article"The Stars Fell on Henrietta" (1995)
<< Previous 9 of 11Next >>Cast: Robert Duvall and Aiden QuinnPlot: Set in Texas in 1935, a wildcatter who never has any luck is optimistic that the land beneath a cotton farm in the town of...
View Article"Boom Town" (1940)
<< Previous 8 of 11Next >>Cast: Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert and Hedy LamarrPlot: The story spans 20 years and follows two down-on-their luck oil wildcatters who join...
View Article"Giant" (1956)
<< Previous 4 of 11Next >>Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean Plot: A Texas oil rancher meets and marries a Maryland socialite and brings her back to his ranch. A ranch hand...
View Article"Black Gold: Day of the Falcon" (2011)
<< Previous 5 of 11Next >>Cast: Tahar Rahim, Antonio Banderas, Mark StrongPlot: Based on Hand Rursch’s 1957 novel South of the Heart: A novel of Modern Arabia, the film is set in the 1930s...
View Article"Local Hero" (1983)
<< Previous 6 of 11Next >>Cast: Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson, Fulton Mackay, and Burt LancasterPlot: An American oil company sends a representative to a small Scottish fishing village on the...
View ArticleMark Wahlberg and the #deepwaterhorizon? Why I'm skeptical but cautiously...
I read this week that Mark Wahlberg is in talks to be a part of a new movie based on the Deepwater Horizon explosion of a few years ago.The former leader of the “Funky Bunch” is one of my favorite...
View Article#lebanon's Oil and Gas: 2014 Review #oilgas #mena #government #middleeast
Lebanon is a small country in the Middle East. However, it is famous, Better “Notorious”. In movies, when bullets fly, “Beirut” comes as a key word.Only recently, did Lebanon hit the headlines as a...
View ArticleFoghorn Fishing #oilfieldhumor #oilfieldcartoons #oilfieldcalendars...
This illustration is of a watercolor I completed of an imaginary fish species. After I decided to write about a couple of my fishing adventures, I realized I did not have any fishing cartoons- at least...
View ArticleHoward Hughes Sr. & The Spudding Of A #drilling Revolution #unitedstates...
"Anyone who wants to dig a well without a Hughes bit can always use a pick and shovel." So said Howard Hughes Sr. who, in popular culture, is best known as the father of the eccentric film producer,...
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