Peak Oil Film Festival

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Here's a list of movies on peak oil that are good candidates for a Peak Oil Film Festival. Films were selected on the topics of peak oil, overpopulation, control of the news media, 9/11, resource wars, agriculture, and nuclear war.

If you'd like to help in planning the film festival, please contact me at: michael_poremba(at)yahoo.com. Modified:
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  - • The Great Squeeze: Surviving the Human Project » Directed/produced by Christopher Fauchere, 2008. (67 minutes)
  - • Michael T. Klare's "Blood and Oil" » Featuring Michael T. Klare. By the Media Education Foundation, 2008. (52 minutes)
  - • Blind Spot » Directed by Adolfo Doring, 2008. (86 minutes)
  - • Sprawling from Grace, Driven to Madness » Directed by David Edwards, 2008. (82 minutes)
  - • What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire » Director/Writer: Timothy S. Bennett, 2007. (123 minutes)
  - • Crude Impact » Directed by James Jandek Wood, 2006. (97 minutes)
  - • A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash » Directed by Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack, 2006. (83 minutes)
  - • Escape from Suburbia: Does the American Dream Have a Future? » Directed by Gregory Greene, 2007. (95 minutes)
  - • Energy Crossroads » Directed/produced by Christopher Fauchere, 2006. (55 minutes)
  - • Peak Oil? »
  - • Peak Oil: Imposed by Nature » Directed by Amund Prestegard, 2005. (29 minutes)
  - • The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream » Directed by Gregory Greene, 2004. (78 minutes)
  - • The Prize » PBS series based on the book by Daniel Yergin, 1992. (480 minutes)
  - • Crude: The incredible journey of oil » Austrailian documentary. (Three-part series; extras online)
- 6 Apocalyptic Future (resources/population) (2)
  - • Mad Max » Directed by George Miller, 1979. (93 minutes)
  - • Delicatessen » Directed by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1991. (99 minutes)
- 6 Oil Industry & Wars (4)
  - • There Will be Blood » Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007. (156 minutes)
  - • Blood and Oil: The Middle East in World War I » By Marty Callaghan, 2006. (112 minutes)
  - • Three Days of the Condor » Directed by Sydney Pollack, 1975. (117 minutes)
  - • Giant » Directed by George Stevens, 1956. (291 minutes)
- 6 Ecology (2)
  - • Yu Koyo Peya »
  - • Water » Directed by Chris Graham, 2005. (12 minutes)
- 6 Economics (1)
  - • Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy » Directed by Greg Barker and William Cran, 2004. (360 minutes)
- 6 Corporate ecological crimes (4)
  - • The Future of Food » Directed by Deborah Koons, 2004. (88 minutes)
  - • The Corporation » Directed by Jennifer Abbott and Mark Achbar, 2003. (145 minutes)
  - • The Nature of Things: Food or Famine » CBC series with David Suzuki, 1997. (120 minutes)
  - • Taken for a Ride » Directed by Jim Kein and Martha Olson, 1996. (52 minutes)
- 6 Climate Change (7)
  - • Everything's Cool » Directed by Daniel B. Gold and Judith Helfand, 2007. (89 minutes)
  - • Thin Ice: Saattuq » Directed by Laura O’Grady & George Browne, 2007. (47 minutes)
  - • Arctic Tale » Directed by Adam Ravetch and Sarah Robertson, 2007. (96 minutes)
  - • An Inconvenient Truth » Directed by Davis Guggenheim, 2006. (94 minutes)
  - • Out of Balance: ExxonMobile's Imact on Climate Change » Directed by Tom Jackson, 2006. (65 minutes)
  - • The Last Winter » Directed by Larry Fressenden, 2006. (101 minutes)
  - • From Sea to Rising Sea Directed by Adam Loughnane, 2005. (57 minutes)
- 6 Energy (2)
  - • Kilowatt Ours » Directed by Jeff Barie, 2007. (56 minutes)
  - • Wind Over Water » Directed by Ole Tangen, 2002. (32 minutes)
- 6 Mainstream Media in the US (3)
  - • Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism » Directed by Robert Greenwald, 2004. (78 minutes)
  - • Orwell Rolls in His Grave » Robert Kane Papas, 2004. (84 minutes)
  - • Network » Directed by Sidney Lumet, 1976. (121 minutes)
- 6 Nuclear War (2)
  - • The Day After Trinity » Directed by Jon Else, 1981. (88 minutes)
  - • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb » Directed by Stanley Kubrik, 1964. (93 minutes)
- 6 Overpopulation (3)
  - • Pitra, Putra Aur Dharamyuddha » Directed by Anand Patwardhan, 1994. (120 minutes)
  - • Koyaanisquatsi » Directed by Godfrey Reggio, 1983. (87 minutes)
  - • Soylent Green » Directed by Richard Fleischer, 1973. (97 minutes)
- 6 Responses to Peak Oil (6)
  - • The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil » Directed by Faith Morgan, 2006. (53 minutes)
  - • After the Peak » Directed by Jim McQuaid, 2007. (27 minutes)
  - • The Greening of Cuba » By Marilyn Brochardt, 1996. (38 minutes)
  - • Beyond Organic: The Vision of Fairview Gardens » By John de Graaf, 2002. (33 minutes)
  - • Affluenza » By John de Graaf and Vivia Boe, 1997. (56 minutes)
  - • Escape from Affluenza » By Vivia Boe and John de Graaf, 1998. (56 minutes)
- 6 More films (5)
  - • Good Food » By Melissa Young and Mark Dworkin, 2008. (73 minutes)
  - • 11th Hour » Directed by Nadia Conners and Leila Conners Petersen, 2007. (95 minutes)
  - • Contested Streets » Directed by Stefan Schaefer, 2006. (57 minutes)
  - • Hooked on Growth: Our Misguided Quest for Prosperity » Directed by Dave Gardner. (work in progress)
  - • Northwest Environmental Education Council »
- 4 Other Films Considered, but Rejected (8)
  - • Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie » Directed by Peter Kuran, 1995.
  - • The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror » Directed by Audrey Brohy and Gerard Ungerman, 2005.
  - • Syriana » Directed by Stephen Gaghan, 2005.
  - • Oil Storm » Directed by James Erskine (Fox), 2005.
  - • The Real Dirt on Farmer John » Directed by Taggart Siegel, 2005.
  - • The Deal » Directed by Harvey Kahn, 2005.
  - • Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties » Directed by Robert Greenwald, 2004.
  - • Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire » Directed by Jeremy Earp and Sut Jhally, 2004.