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In The Power of Big Oil, Documentary series in three parts that begins April 19 on PBS, FRONTLINE examines the fossil fuel industry’s history of casting doubt and delaying action on climate change, tracing decades of missed opportunities and ongoing attempts to hold Big Oil to account.
The documentary series follows a new Report by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) saying that rapid action is needed in order to reduce planet-warming emissions of greenhouse gases and limit climate disaster, and outlining possible ways in which the world can take action to cut such emissions in half by 2030.
“We are at a crossroads,” IPCC chair Hoesung Lee said in an AnnouncementAbout the report. “The decisions we make now can secure a livable future. We have the tools and know-how required to limit warming.”
FRONTLINE has covered climate change and other environmental threats over many years and across multiple platforms. Before the premiere of The Power of Big Oil, revisit more than a decade’s worth of reporting.
The Power of Big Oil (2022)
Premiering April 19, April 26, and May 3,; wAbove, you can see the trailer.
(Background photo: MChe Le/Unsplash).
Misinformation: How Climate Change Is Taught In America (2021)
A book by former FRONTLINE investigative reporter Katie Worth on what kids in the U.S. learn about climate change in school — including the roles of oil corporations, state legislatures, school boards and lobbyists — published by Columbia Global Reports with support from FRONTLINE and The GroundTruth Project, and rooted in a A series of storiesBy Worth.
(Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times)
Poisoned (2021)
A Tampa Bay Times investigation, supported by FRONTLINE’s Local Journalism InitiativeThis video reveals how hundreds of workers at a Florida lead smelter exposed them to high levels of the neurotoxin.
Groundwater War: New Mexico’s Toxic Threat (2021)
A New Mexico PBS investigation supported by FRONTLINE’s Local Journalism Initiative into PFAS — “forever” chemicals — contamination at military installations in the state and the impact on groundwater.
Plastic Wars (2020)
NPR and the Investigative reporting Workshop conducted an investigation into how big oil and petrochemical corporations that make plastic promoted recycling as a solution for the pollution crisis. This was despite doubts within the industry that widespread plastic recycling would ever be economically feasible.
Fire in Paradise (2019)
A film on the 2018 Camp Fire, California’s deadliest-ever wildfire, This article examines climate change and other contributing factors.
Coal’s Deadly Dust (2019)
NPR investigates how the U.S. government and coal industry failed to protect miners suffering from severe black lung diseases.
The Last Generation (2018)
GroundTruth Project: An interactive exploration of climate changes as seen through three children living in Marshall Islands, a nation that is at risk of rising seas.
Greenland Melting 360° (2018)
A 360-degree documentary set amid Greenland’s melting glaciers, from FRONTLINE, NOVA, Emblematic Group, X-Rez Studio and Realtra.
War on the EPA (2017)
A documentary examining how the antiregulatory and anti-climate-change-science movements in America gained power.
Boom Town (2017)
An investigation from The FRONTLINE Dispatch podcast into earthquakes linked to the oil industry in an Oklahoma town known as “the pipeline crossroads of the world.”
Return to Chernobyl 360° (2017)
NYU Journalism offers a 360-degree, on-the ground look at the site for the worst nuclear accident in history, 30 years later.
Hunt for the Inca Ruins 360° (2016)
The Mercury Crisis 360° (2016)
Two short documentaries that are immersive and about twin issues affecting the Peruvian Amazon. They focus on a fight for oil and gas exploration and a boom of gold mining.
Exxon Researched Climate Change In 1977 (2015)
A short documentary about Exxon’s early research into climate change, produced in collaboration with InsideClimate News; FRONTLINE also published a SeriesOf Similar InterviewsYouTube video, in collaboration with InsideClimate News
Climate of Doubt (2012)
Here’s a look at the organizations that fought against the scientific establishment to change the direction of climate debate.
Alaska Gold (2012)
An examination of the conflict over the proposed Pebble Mine, located in the Bristol Bay region in southwest Alaska. Home to the last wild sockeye salmon fishing operation in the world and enormous mineral deposits estimated at billions of dollars, this article will examine the situation.
Inside Japan’s Nuclear Meltdown (2012)
A documentary that shows how close the world came in the wake of the tsunami and earthquake that struck Japan on March 11, 2011. This caused a crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
Nuclear Aftershocks (2012)
A look at the implications of the Fukushima accident for U.S. nuclear safety — and for the future of nuclear energy around the world.
The Spill (2010)
ProPublica’s investigation into the Gulf of Mexico BP Deepwater Horizon explosion was preceded by numerous safety violations that many believe should have prompted federal regulators.
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