Agrofuels starving people, fueling greed c2012
Filmmakers Loren and Matt Feinstein provide an eye-opening account of the downside of alternative, food-based fuel sources. Delving deep into the world of agrofuels and monocrops, they explore how the increasingly common practice of diverting food crops to the industrial production of cellulose-based fuels is devastating indigenous communities, undermining small farmers, and endangering the environment across Latin America. Turning to the promise of the future, they also show how grassroots communities are developing better, cleaner alternatives. 1 videodisc (28 min.)
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Black diamonds mountaintop removal & the fight for coalfield justice c2006
Catherine Pancake, Ann Pancake, Lauren Graham, and Bullfrog Films, inc
Charts the rise of large scale coal surface mining in Appalachia and the community resistance of a region caught between the national appetite for cheap energy and a sense of Appalachian culture and beauty. 1 videodisc (72 min.)
MEDIA 10-767
Blind spot c2009
Adolfo Doring, Amanda Zackem, William Robert Catton, Lester Russell Brown, James E Hansen, Bill McKibben, Randall Wallace, Richard Heinberg, Theodore Caplow, David Pimentel, Matt Savinar, Derrick Jensen, David C Korten, Kenneth S Deffeyes, Dislexic Films, and Media Education Foundation
"[This film] explores the inextricable link between the energy we use, the way we run our economy, and the multiplying threats that now confront the environmental health and stability of our planet. Taking as its starting point the inevitable energy depletion scenario known as "Peak Oil," the film surveys a fascinating range of the latest intellectual, political, and scientific thought to make the case that by whatever means of greed, wishful thinking, neglect, or ignorance, we now find ourselves at a disturbing crossroads: we can continue to burn fossil fuels and witness the collapse of our ecology, or we can choose not to and witness the collapse of our economy." -- Container. 1 videodisc (54 min.)
MEDIA 10-2216
Blood and oil c2008
Michael T Klare, Jeremy Earp, Scott Morris , Michael T Klare, and Media Education Foundation
This film unearths declassified documents and highlights forgotten passages in prominent presidential doctrines, showing how concerns about oil have been at the core of American foreign policy for more than 60 years. As a result, the contemporary energy and military policies of the U.S. are virtually indistinguishable. 1 videodisc (52 min.)
MEDIA 10-2224
Burning in the sun 2011
Cambria Matlow, Morgan Robinson, Bullfrog Films, and Birdgirl Productions
"26-year-old Daniel Dembélé is equal parts West African and European, and looking to make his mark on the world. Seizing the moment at a crossroads in his life, Daniel decides to return to his homeland in Mali and start a local business building solar panels, the first of its kind in the sun drenched nation. Daniel's goal is to electrify the households of rural communities, 99% of which live without power. [The film] tells the story of Daniel's journey growing the budding idea into a viable company, and of the business' impace on Daniel's first customers in the tiny village of Banko. Addressing climate change, poverty, and self-sufficiency, the film demonstrates how a small-scale, local business model can improve jobs, appropriate products, and empower poor people everywhere." -- Container. 1 videodisc (83 min.) :
MEDIA 10-3457
The cost of oil voices from the Arctic c2009
Mitchell Coulter, Joshua C Dukes, Jill Robinson, Rebecca Dukes, and Stone Soup Productions
The cost of oil: voices from the Arctic examines the subsistence lifestyle of one Inupiat society in Point Hope, Alaska that may be forever altered, or even destroyed, by exploration and drilling for oil in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas. Captivating images and footage from the Alaskan North Slope set the scene for the native peoples to describe how their cultural heritage, hunting methods, language, and subsistence lifestyle will be affected by offshore oil drilling. The Inupiat tell of their struggles of balancing the poverty relating to increased globalization with preserving their historical way of life. This strife is multiplied by attempting to pass on their rich cultural ancestry to teens striving to identify who they are and where they belong in a world where their future is so uncertain. 1 videodisc (42 min.)
MEDIA 10-2091
Crude c2009
Joe Berlinger, Michael Bonfiglio, J. R DeLeon, Richard Stratton, Third Eye Motion Picture Company, First-Run Features (Firm), Red Envelope Entertainment (Firm), Entendre Films, and @Radical.media (Firm)
"Tells the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet: the infamous $27 billion 'Amazon Chernobyl' lawsuit pitting 30,000 rainforest dwellers in Ecuador against the U.S. oil giant Chevron." -- Container. 1 videodisc (104 min.) :
MEDIA 10-2824
A crude awakening the oil crash c2007
Basil Gelpke, Ray McCormack, Daniel Schnyder, C. J Campbell, Matthew R Simmons, Fadhil J Al-Chalabi, David L Goodstein, Lava Productions AG, Docurama (Firm), and New Video Group
A documentary film that "debunk[s] the conventional wisdom that oil production will continue to climb, and instead stare[s] bleakly at a planet facing economic meltdown and conflict over its most valuable resource" -- Container. 1 videodisc (85 min.)
MEDIA 10-1321
Delta force 2008?
Ken Saro-Wiwa, Ken Wiwa, Kay Bishop, Glenn Ellis, Cathy Tyson, Catma Films (Firm), Channel Four (Great Britain), and Witness Films, Inc
A documentary made before the judicial murder of the Nigerian writer and human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa in November 1995. Delta Force tells the story of the non-violent efforts of the Ogoni people to halt 30 years of environmental damage, suffering and inequality on the Niger Delta. Delta force opens with the arrest of Saro-Wiwa and the subsequent implementation of "Operation Restore" in Ogoniland--the military campaign of terror waged against the Ogoni people in an attempt to suppress their environmental campaign against oil drilling by Shell International. Also includes interview excerpts with Ken Wiwa, son of Ken Saro-Wiwa. 1 videodisc (50 min.)
MEDIA 10-1982
Dirty business "clean coal" and the battle for our energy future c2011
Peter Bull, Jeff Goodell, Center for Investigative Reporting (U.S.), and Bullfrog Films
"Half our electriticy still comes from coal. Dirty business reveals the true social and environmental costs of coal power and tells the stories of innovators who are pointing the way to an alternative energy future. Guided by Rolling Stone reporter Jeff Goodell, the film examines what it means to remain dependent on a 19th century technology that is the largest single source of greenhouse gases. Can coal really be made clean? Can renewables be produced on a scale large enough to replace coal? The film seeks answers in a series of stories shot in China, Saskatchewan, Kansas, West Virginia, Nevada and New York."--Container. 1 videodisc (89 min.) :
MEDIA 10-3441
The drilling fields 2008?
Poonam Sharma, Glenn Ellis, Kay Bishop, Cathy Tyson, Catma Films (Firm), Channel Four (Great Britain), and Witness Films, Inc
Shows the disputes between Shell Oil, the Nigerian military government, and the indigenous Ogoni people over land rights and oil pollution caused by Shell Oil drillings in the Ogoni's ancestral lands. Shows activist Ken Saro-Wiwa's attempts to bring worldwide attention to the Ogoni's plight. 1 videodisc (50 min.)
MEDIA 10-2258
Energy war c2007
Shuchen Tan, Ijsbrand van Veelen, Rudi Boon, Backlight Productions, VPRO Television, and First Run/Icarus Films
Profiles newly emergent 'superpowers' such as Iran and Venezuela. Thomas Friedman analyzes the political concept of 'petro authoritarianism' and Kenneth Deffeyes explains the 'Peak Oil' phenomenon, the point at which the earth's supply of oil begins its terminal decline. Concludes by investigating the search for alternatives to our dependency on oil, featuring interviews with economists, stock market traders, and new energy entrepreneurs, who discuss the pros and cons of such possible substitutes as biofuels, hydropower, nuclear and solar energy. 1 videodisc (78 min.)
MEDIA 10-1042
Enron the smartest guys in the room 2005
Alex Gibney, Jason Kliot, Susan Motamed, Peter Coyote, Peter Elkind, Bethany McLean, 2929 Entertainment (Firm), HDNet Films, Jigsaw Productions, and Magnolia Home Entertainment (Firm)
The inside story of one of history's greatest business scandals, in which top executives of America's seventh largest company walked away with over one billion dollars, while investors and employees lost everything. 1 videodisc (109 min.) :
MEDIA 10-3517
Epic of black gold 2011
"Oil has changed the face of the earth, it has modUeled man. Our hisUtory, our wars, our living conditions, our standard of living, our working hours, our politics, our basic needs, our lives are totally influUenced by oil. Our aim is to tell this fabulous story of our planet in a cluster of six films. The series will start at the very beginning in the middle of the 19th century. Technical progress, economy, history, environment and geopolitical strategies will all be examined and analyzed in the telling of a story which is as exciting for man as his own evolution."--Zaradoc website. 6 videodiscs (319 min.)
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Fuel c2010
Joshua Tickell, John O'Hara, Greg Reitman, Dale Rosenbloom, Daniel Assael, Darius Fisher, Rebecca Harrell, Cinema Libre Distribution, Blue Water Entertainment (Firm), Open Pictures (Firm), Hero BX (Firm), Digital Neural Axis (Firm), PIC Agency (Firm), and Cinema Libre Studio
The message of "Fuel" is clear: oil is bad, alternative energy is good. Its goals are simple: put Big Oil out of business, and sell the American public on the virtues of cleaner energy sources, such as wind, solar, and ethanol. Josh Tickell, an alternative-energy zealot, has both driven cross-country in a car powered only by fast-food cooking oil and written a book about it. His film is a combination of autobiography, first-person travelogue, history and ecology lesson, and a shamelessly inspirational call to action. Using charts, animated graphics and historical footage, Tickell ties our national obsession with oil to melting glaciers, melting economies, the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina, and the collapse of the American way of life. Eleven years in the making (a shorter version appeared in 2008 as "Fields of Fuel") the film is not so much a green documentary as a red, white, and blue alarm. 1 videodisc (112 min.) :
MEDIA 10-2395
Gasland 2010
Josh Fox, Molly Gandour, Trish Adlesic, International WOW Company, Gasland Productions, Docurama (Firm), and New Video Group
In 2009, Delaware River Basin native Josh Fox was presented with an interesting proposal: lease his family lands to a natural gas company for a new method of drilling called hydraulic fracturing, and get a check for $100,000. He wouldn't have to do anything but sit back and collect the money. Curious about the process, Fox embarks on an exploration of other areas where natural gas drilling was already in progress, to observe firsthand any potential downsides. In Dimock, Pennsylvania, a town surrounded by fracking activity, he hears stories of wells exploding, black water, flammable drinking water, headaches, pains, long-term sickness. Fox goes on to tour 25 states, cataloging an endless string of frustrated and sick Americans whose land has become toxic and explaining the legislation pushed through by former vice president Dick Cheney, exempting energy companies from key environmental acts--exemptions that make fracking invisible to any regulation or monitoring. Fox becomes an advocate for the cause of the people whose complaints are ignored by the natural gas corporations and the American government. The film documents the pitfalls and perils--borne of avarice of the most bloodless, ruthless kind--of the largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in American history, with the potential to poison millions. 1 videodisc (103 min.) :
MEDIA 10-3201
Into eternity en film til fremtiden 2011
"Into Eternity is the first feature documentary to explore the mind-boggling scientific and philosophical questions long-term nuclear waste storage poses. Structured as a message to future generations, the film focuses on the Onkalo underground waste repository now being built in Finland, one of the first nuclear waste storage facilities. Once the repository is full in about 100 years, it will be closed and sealed 'forever'."--Container . 1 videodisc (78 min.)
MEDIA 10-4315
Journey to planet Earth mobilizing to save civilization 2010
As fossil fuel prices rise, oil insecurity deepens, and concerns about climate change cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new energy economy is emerging. Wind, solar, and geothermal energy are replacing oil, coal, and natural gas, at a pace and on a scale we could not have imagined even a year ago. For the first time since the Industrial Revolution, we have begun investing in energy sources that can last forever. Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization explores both the nature of this transition to a new energy economy and its effect on our daily lives. 1 videodisc (83 min.)
MEDIA 10-4518
Late lessons from early warnings: 1:4: Lead for life c2006
Jakob Gottschau, Brian Patterson, Danmarks radio, Express TV Produktions (Firm), and Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Human enthusiasm for progress--particularly when shortsighted, misguided, or tainted by self-interest--can ricochet, marring the global environment and the lives of millions. As a gasoline additive, lead suppresses engine knock. Lead is also a well-known poison, and yet during the 1920s it was championed over safer alternatives--and even backed by the U.S. surgeon general. Why? Money, of course, and the tremendous power of oil and automobile companies. This program presents a condensed history of the gasoline additive, tetraethyllead, and its impact on human health and intelligence, most notably as documented in Herbert Needleman's controversial study of schoolchildren. 1 videodisc (30 min.) :
MEDIA 10-2864
The new great game 2012
After 500 years of Western domination, the waterways of the Middle East are now being contested in unprecedented ways. Pirates are roaming sea lanes. Local powers are threatening chokepoints. And the people are rising up to bring their authoritarian rulers down. With no simple solutions for maintaining control of oil flows, the West is facing a crucial decision. Already weakened by extended military interventions, faltering economies, and strained global partnerships, the US and Europe must decide whether violent intervention or benevolent passivity is the best course of action. This timely documentary charts these murky new waters and shows how the logic of empire is being tested by a rapidly changing Middle East. With fresh-from-the-ground footage and testimony from experts and actors in the region, the film zeroes in on how disparate events occurring on land in such places as Iran, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Yemen, and at sea in the Gulf of Aden, the Persian Gulf, and the Red Sea, are all part of the same story -- a story about the slow dismantling of the old order, and the emergence of a new geopolitical game. 1 videodisc (54 min.)
MEDIA 10-4098
Nigeria's oil war c2005
Mark Corcoran, Mary Ann Jolley, Filmakers Library, inc, and Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Examines the oil industry of the Niger River Delta. The oil wealth of the region has not benefitted much of the population, and in the face of extreme poverty, indifference on the part of the oil companies and corruption on the part of the government, armed groups are being formed to attack the oil companies' installations. 1 videocassette (23 min.)
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The power of community how Cuba survived peak oil c2006
Faith Morgan, Eugene Murphy, Megan Quinn, Bruce Cromer, Community Service, Inc, and Community Solution (Firm)
"When Cuba lost access to Soviet oil in the early 1900s, the country faced an immediate crisis -- feeding the population -- and an ongoing challenge: how to create a new low-energy society. Cuba transitioned from large, fossil-fuel intensive farming to small, less energy-intensive organic farm and urban gardens, and from a highly industrial society to a more sustainable one." -- Container. 1 videodisc (53 min.)
MEDIA 10-1759
Power paths c2009
Peter Coyote, Bo Boudart, Specialty Studios, Looking Hawk Productions, and Bay Area Video Coalition (San Francisco, Calif.)
This documentary follows the Navajo, Hopi and Lakota Sioux tribes, as they find ways to introduce renewable energy projects into their communities through a grassroots movement that the filmmakers have tracked over the past two years. 1 videodisc (53 min.)
MEDIA 10-2066
Priceless c2011
Steve Cowan, Barry Schienberg, Cameron Harrison, Bullfrog Films, and Habitat Media
"This non-partisan film includes a look at two national policies -- agriculture and energy -- shaped by a variety of interests including industry groups, political parties, lobbyists, citizen groups, candidates, and officeholders." -- www.bullfrogfilms.com. 1 videodisc (58 min.) :
MEDIA 10-3376
SoLa Louisiana water stories 2010
Chris Cavanagh, Jon Bowermaster, Oceans 8 Productions, and Bullfrog Films
Investigates how the exploitation of Southern Louisiana's abundant natural resources compromised the resiliency of its ecology and culture, thus multiplying the effects of the BP oil spill and Hurricane Katrina. 1 videodisc (62 min.) :
MEDIA 10-2371
Split estate c2009
Debra Anderson, Joe Day, Avery Garrett, Jean Wendt, Ali MacGraw, Red Rock Pictures (Firm), and Bullfrog Films
"Imagine discovering that you don't own the mineral rights under your land, and that an energy company plans to drill for natural gas two hundred feet from your front door. Imagine finding that you have little or no recourse to protect your home or land from such development. [The film] maps a tragedy in the making, as citizens in the path of a new drilling boom in the Rocky Mountain West struggle against the erosion of their civil liberties, their communities and their health." -- Container. Focuses on Garfield County, Colorado and the San Juan Basin, according to Planet Green synopsis. 1 videodisc (76 min.)
MEDIA 10-1843
Sweet crude 2010
Sandy Cioffi, Leslye Wood, Tammi Sims, Kate Wolf, Jill Freidberg, Virasana Productions (Firm), Vérité Coffee (Firm), and Cinema Guild
In a small corner of the most populous country in Africa, billions of dollars of crude oil flow under the feet of a desperate people. Immense wealth and abject poverty stand in stark contrast. The environment is decimated. The issues are complex, the answers elusive. The documentary film Sweet Crude tells the story of Nigeria's Niger Delta. The region is seething and the global stakes are high. But in this moment, there's an opportunity to find solutions. What if the world paid attention before it was too late? 1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) :
MEDIA 10-2410
There will be blood 2008
Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Lupi, Joanne Sellar, Jonny Greenwood, Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J O'Connor, Ciaraan Hinds, Dillon Freasier, Barry Del Sherman, Paul F Tompkins, Upton Sinclair, Paramount Vantage, Miramax Films , Ghoulardi Film Company, and Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)
Self-made oilman Daniel Plainview has a voracious appetite for money and power. Working with his "son and partner," 11-year-old H.W., he becomes a California tycoon in the early years of the 20th century. His only challenge comes from a young, ambitious charismatic preacher, Eli Sunday. 2 videodiscs (158 min.)
MEDIA 10-1371
La tierra del gran viento 2008
Lucia Antonio, Esequiel López, and Unión de Comunidades Indigenas de la Zona Norte del Istmo (Mexico)
A look at corporate interests competing against those of the local population on the Istmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca, Mexico. The firms are developing large wind farms, requiring land for turbines, power lines, and other infrastructure. 1 videodisc (27 min.) :
MEDIA 10-2763
All the president's oil 2001
Christopher Kendall and Marcel Theroux
Examines the present corruption of this oil-rich country. 1 videocassette (26 min.)
MEDIA 2-6154
Black diamonds mountaintop removal & the fight for coalfield justice c2006
Catherine Pancake, Ann Pancake, Lauren Graham, and Bullfrog Films, inc
Charts the rise of large scale coal surface mining in Appalachia and the community resistance of a region caught between the national appetite for cheap energy and a sense of Appalachian culture and beauty. 1 videodisc (72 min.)
MEDIA 10-767
A crude awakening the oil crash c2007
Basil Gelpke, Ray McCormack, Daniel Schnyder, C. J Campbell, Matthew R Simmons, Fadhil J Al-Chalabi, David L Goodstein, Lava Productions AG, Docurama (Firm), and New Video Group
A documentary film that "debunk[s] the conventional wisdom that oil production will continue to climb, and instead stare[s] bleakly at a planet facing economic meltdown and conflict over its most valuable resource" -- Container. 1 videodisc (85 min.)
MEDIA 10-1321
Drowning in oil? 2003?
Joan Salvat, Muntsa Tarrés, Lluis Jene, Enric Miro, Meritxell Ribas, Televisió de Catalunya, and Filmakers Library, inc
In 1995 U.S. oil companies arrived in Equatorial Guinea in West Africa and found oil. Until then cocoa crops was the only economic activity. Although oil revenues bring in millions of dollars, there has been no improvement to the development of the country. Where is the money going? Besides financial corruption, the government supresses leaders of the political opposition. 1 videocassette (30 min.)
MEDIA 2-6893
Electric nation c2002
Daniel A Miller, Stacy Keach, Great Projects Film Company, South Carolina Educational Television Network, National Academy of Engineering, and PBS Home Video
Documents how electricity became a part of American daily life. 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.)
MEDIA 2-6671 2-7038
Energy war c2007
Shuchen Tan, Ijsbrand van Veelen, Rudi Boon, Backlight Productions, VPRO Television, and First Run/Icarus Films
Profiles newly emergent 'superpowers' such as Iran and Venezuela. Thomas Friedman analyzes the political concept of 'petro authoritarianism' and Kenneth Deffeyes explains the 'Peak Oil' phenomenon, the point at which the earth's supply of oil begins its terminal decline. Concludes by investigating the search for alternatives to our dependency on oil, featuring interviews with economists, stock market traders, and new energy entrepreneurs, who discuss the pros and cons of such possible substitutes as biofuels, hydropower, nuclear and solar energy. 1 videodisc (78 min.)
MEDIA 10-1042
Louisiana story 1976
Robert Joseph Flaherty, Virgil Thomson, Frances Hubbard Flaherty, Eugene Ormandy, and Joseph Boudreaux
Depicts the pristine beauty and majesty of the Louisiana bayous through the keen senses of a child, who witnesses the drama of locating oil two miles down and bringing it to the surface. 1 videocassette (79 min.)
MEDIA 2-1295
Nigeria's oil war c2005
Mark Corcoran, Mary Ann Jolley, Filmakers Library, inc, and Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Examines the oil industry of the Niger River Delta. The oil wealth of the region has not benefitted much of the population, and in the face of extreme poverty, indifference on the part of the oil companies and corruption on the part of the government, armed groups are being formed to attack the oil companies' installations. 1 videocassette (23 min.)
MEDIA MEDIA 2-7836 10-1058
Oil in Iraq curse or blessing? 2003
Robert Mugnerot, Serge Gordey, Peter Hudson, ARTE France, Point du Jour (Firm), and Filmakers Library, inc
Looks at the nationalisation of the Iraqi oil industry, the Iran/Iraq war, the state of Iraq's post-war oil industry and the UN Food for Oil Program. 1 videocassette (52 min.)
MEDIA 2-6811
The Petrodollar coast 1983
Jo Franklin-Trout
Looks at two cities along the "Petrodollar Coast," a mysterious, spectacular world created by a sea of oil wealth along the Persian Arabian Gulf. Explores the bonanza and the problems that oil wealth has brought about. 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.)
MEDIA 2-1424
The power of community how Cuba survived peak oil c2006
Faith Morgan, Eugene Murphy, Megan Quinn, Bruce Cromer, Community Service, Inc, and Community Solution (Firm)
"When Cuba lost access to Soviet oil in the early 1900s, the country faced an immediate crisis -- feeding the population -- and an ongoing challenge: how to create a new low-energy society. Cuba transitioned from large, fossil-fuel intensive farming to small, less energy-intensive organic farm and urban gardens, and from a highly industrial society to a more sustainable one." -- Container. 1 videodisc (53 min.)
MEDIA 10-1759
The Prize the epic quest for oil, money & power 1992
Donald Sutherland and William Cran
A panoramic history of the largest, riskiest, most lucrative industry in the world--oil. 4 videocassettes (120 min. ea.)
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The Road to war in the Persian Gulf 1992
This video is designed to give an understanding of the historical causes of the Persian Gulf War. It begins with the period just after World War I, when Britain and France, the main European victors, divided most of the Middle East between them. It goes on to describe how the oil resources of Iraq and Kuwait have shaped their history--first by attracting colonial powers and then by providing wealth for their own development. 1 videocassette (24 min.)
MEDIA 2-1887
Split estate c2009
Debra Anderson, Joe Day, Avery Garrett, Jean Wendt, Ali MacGraw, Red Rock Pictures (Firm), and Bullfrog Films
"Imagine discovering that you don't own the mineral rights under your land, and that an energy company plans to drill for natural gas two hundred feet from your front door. Imagine finding that you have little or no recourse to protect your home or land from such development. [The film] maps a tragedy in the making, as citizens in the path of a new drilling boom in the Rocky Mountain West struggle against the erosion of their civil liberties, their communities and their health." -- Container. Focuses on Garfield County, Colorado and the San Juan Basin, according to Planet Green synopsis. 1 videodisc (76 min.)
MEDIA 10-1843
There will be blood 2008
Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Lupi, Joanne Sellar, Jonny Greenwood, Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J O'Connor, Ciaraan Hinds, Dillon Freasier, Barry Del Sherman, Paul F Tompkins, Upton Sinclair, Paramount Vantage, Miramax Films , Ghoulardi Film Company, and Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)
Self-made oilman Daniel Plainview has a voracious appetite for money and power. Working with his "son and partner," 11-year-old H.W., he becomes a California tycoon in the early years of the 20th century. His only challenge comes from a young, ambitious charismatic preacher, Eli Sunday. 2 videodiscs (158 min.)
MEDIA 10-1371
What in the world?: Ecuador c2005
Ruth Meehan, Rodney Rice, Radio Telefís Éireann, KMF Productions, and Films for the Humanities (Firm)
This program assesses the growing conflict between Burlington Resources, an American oil company licensed to prospect in regions of Ecuador, and the self-sufficient Achuar people, who believe the oil industry will destroy their environment and non-materialistic way of life. 1 videocassette (26 min.)
MEDIA 2-7129
XXI Century: Part 6: Blood and oil 2005
Gabriele Zamparini, Lorenzo Meccoli, Cat's Dream (Firm), and Bullfrog Films, inc
This video zeroes in on the stated reasons, and the real reasons, for the Iraq war. Gore Vidal, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, historian Arno Mayer and others share their critiques and point of views. 1 videocassette (55 min.)
MEDIA 2-7650
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