Documentaries Tagged “energy”
An Experiment to Save The World
An Experiment to Save The World
In March 2002, the scientific world was rocked by some astonishing news: a distinguished US government scientist claimed he had made nuclear fusion out of sound waves in his laboratory. Rusi Taleyarkhan’s breakthrough was such important news because nuclear fusion is one of the most difficult scientific processes, and also one of the m...
Gasland
Gasland
The largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States.
The Halliburton-developed drilling technology of fracking or hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a Saudia Arabia of natural gas just beneath us. But is fracking safe?
When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he emba...
Energy War
Energy War
Forget the axis of evil, its the axis of oil. The Cold War and the War on Terror were about ideology and globalization. The 21st century will be dominated by the struggle for energy: It will be every man for himself and it’s going to get dirty.
In the two-part documentary Energy War, VPRO’s Backlight investigates the major developme...