The Power of Big Oil is a three-part series that investigates the decades-long failure to confront the threat of climate change and the role of the fossil fuel industry. The series presents a parade of former oil company scientists, lobbyists, and public relations strategists who lay bare how the biggest petroleum firm in the United States, Exxon, and then the broader petroleum industry globally, moved from attempting to understand the causes of a global heating to a concerted campaign to hide the making of an environmental catastrophe. Over three episodes--Denial, Doubt, Delay--the series documents the corporate cooptation of science, the manipulation of public opinion, and political figureheads that mirror conduct by other industries--from big tobacco to the pharmaceutical companies responsible for the opioid epidemic.
52:04Inside Japan's Nuclear Meldown is an account of the crisis inside the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after a huge earthquake and tsunami struck Japan on March 11, 2011. With exclusive eyewitness testimony from key figures in the saga--including the Japanese prime minister and senior executives at the power company TEPCO--the film tells the story of the workers struggling frantically to reconnect power inside the plant's pitch-dark and highly radioactive reactor buildings; the nuclear experts and officials in the prime minister’s office fighting to get information as the crisis spiralled out of control; and the plant manager who disobeyed his executives' orders when he thought it would save the lives of his workers.