The Story of Petroleum

The environmental measures taken by the oil industry at the Sullom Voe terminal in the Shetlands.

Almost 200 women file by a device on the wall from which they take their time checks. A man runs half-way across the screen at the end of the film.

A camera on an overhead crane travels down a large, long aisle where men are shown working on large machinery on either side. Carts carrying...

On the left of the screen, a small group of men lift the top off of what appears to be a turbine with a crane and continue to check the machine,...

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions...

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production...

Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty, and seemingly the sole member of the family...

A hunter and his native helpers set up a trap, then taunt and shoot a panther. Next we see the locals skin the animal.

On 4 September Frederick Albert Cook (1865-1940) arrived in Copenhagen on the ship 'Hans Egede'. He received a hero's welcome as the first man to set...

A group of military men uses explosives to de-root trees.

Footage of the German airship Hansa over Copenhagen.

We reveal how the oil industry has been secretly funding scientific studies, launching false media reports and systematically deceiving the public...