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The Beverly Hillbillies (1993)
Jed Clampett and kin move from Arkansas to Beverly Hills when he becomes a billionaire, after an oil strike. The country folk are very naive with regard to life in the big city, so when Jed starts a search for a new wife there are inevitably plenty of takers and con artists ready to make a fast buck
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Hurricane Smith (1992)
An oil-field worker from Texas journeys to Australia to look for his missing sister, and his search winds up getting him involved with a violent drug-smuggling gang.
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Miami Magma (2011)
When an offshore-drilling rig in the Gulf bursts into flames and sinks, Antoinette Vitrini (Rachel Hunter) – a beautiful and insightful volcanologist – investigates the area with startling results. Confirming her theory that a long-dormant underground volcano exists in the region, Antoinette discovers that the illegal deep-sea drilling has awakened the beast. Now, catastrophic amounts of magma are about to be pumped out… right under the city of Miami. But as Antoinette and her team try to stop the impending disaster, they must also battle the corrupt company that caused the problem in the first place.
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The Soldier (1982)
Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.
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A Century of Royal Dutch Shell
Modern history is steeped in oil. Oil is a fuel as well as a raw material for such products as plastics or detergents. Oil is the driving force behind major technological, economic and social developments, even revolutions and wars. The 20th century has lightly been called the century of oil.
For most of the last century and until the present day, Royal Dutch Shell has been one of the largest oil companies in the world. From its creating in 1907 the company played a key role in the global oil industry.
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The Pirate (1978)
An Israeli man, raised by a wealthy and powerful Arab, is put in charge of his country’s vast oil fortunes. He comes into conflict with a fanatical terrorist group–headed by his daughter.
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Oklahoma Crude (1973)
In 1913, in Oklahoma, oil derrick owner Lena Doyle, aided by her father and a hobo, is stubbornly drilling for oil despite the pressure from major oil companies to sell her land.
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The Magnificent Bandits (1969)
Brazil, the 1920s. The sadistic colonel Minas massacres the hometown of a famous cangaceiro (a kind of revolutionary bandit). The only survivor is a young farmer called Espedito; he is nursed back to health by a (crazy?) hermit who thinks he has been sent (= espedito) by God and therefore baptizes him the Redeemer. Espedito/The Redeemer forms his own gang of cangaceiros but doesn’t really understand what he’s doing until he befriends the proverbial European intellectual, a Dutch Oil prospector, who introduces him to important people. Espedito is hired (and of course double-crossed) by the Dutchman and a corrupt local governor, but then the Dutchman changes sides …
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Hellfighters (1968)
The adventures of oil well fire specialist Chance Buckman (based on real-life Red Adair), who extinguishes massive fires in oil fields around the world.
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Black Gold (1962)
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.
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