Movies and TvShows featuring "baku" theme.

During World War II, Adolf Hitler pursued an aggressive campaign to control the oil fields in Baku, Azerbaijan. This documentary provides insight into the strategic importance of the region and Hitler's plans to secure its resources.

Architects of Denial is a documentary film that exposes the horrors of the Armenian Genocide, the systematic mass murder of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I. The film examines the denial of this genocide by the Turkish government and highlights the importance of recognizing and acknowledging historical atrocities.

A Crude Awakening is a documentary that delves into the economic and environmental consequences of dwindling oil resources, specifically focusing on the concept of peak oil. With a mix of expert interviews, archive footage, and a global perspective, the film highlights the urgent need for alternative energy solutions.

An intimate documentary about a trans woman's isolation and decision to leave her home country of Azerbaijan in pursuit of a safer life. Using the metaphor of a rabbit, that comes from her nickname "bunny," she presents her relationship with her family, country, music, and protest, intercut with home videos.

Azerbaijan, 1919. The British hope to secure control of the vast oil fields around Baku by launching a series of terrorist attacks on them. Hans Romberg, a German who is working as a security officer, battles with the British chief agent Captain Forbes and his associates. (Description from Wikipedia)

The film tells about the life of 25-year-old Intigam, who lives in a remote village in the south of Azerbaijan. His grandmother filmed Intigam's dance with sheep and put it on YouTube. With more than 10 million views on YouTube, Intigam is life-changing. An invitation comes to him from Baku and he has to come to Baku. They want to use the purity of the main character and embezzle the 2 million manat allocated to the author of the most viewed video of the year. Before long, the premeditated ruse is revealed and the fraudsters can't get their way. Getting used to village life, Intigam gets into funny situations in the city. In the end, there is a scandal at the award ceremony, and the ground is laid for a video that can collect the next number of views for YouTube.

The film is about dramatic revolutionary events happened in 1918 in Baku.

Dedicated to the development of the oil industry of Soviet Azerbaijan in the background of the first half of the twentieth century, including their selfless work in strengthening the economic and military might of the USSR.

Interrogation is a crime drama set in 1979 Baku, Soviet Union. It follows the investigation of embezzlement and the interrogation of a criminal suspect. The story unfolds in the tumultuous backdrop of Baku, a city in the Caucasus region of Azerbaijan.

Docu-drama about political and military conflict during the Russian Civil War in 1918, from an orthodox pro-Communist viewpoint.

This story of two temperamentally different brothers takes place in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku during the 1970s. The elder brother Jalil is a married postal worker who keeps bees as a hobby. Younger brother Simurg is more adventurous by nature and capable of going after his goals, not just dreaming about them. Jalil has a recurring memory: once, when he was still a kid, his mother, pregnant with Simurg, took him to a women’s sauna. When both brothers fall in love for the same beautiful girl, their differences become apparent once again.

Found footage short about oil.

The 40th Door is a drama that follows the intriguing story of a young man navigating poverty, robbery, and a complex mother-son relationship. Set in both Moscow and Baku, the film explores themes of theft, poverty, and personal growth.

Black Sea Files is a territorial research on the Caspian oil geography: the world’s oldest oil extraction zone. A giant new subterranean pipeline traversing the Caucasus will soon pump Caspian Crude to the West. The line connecting the resource fringe with the terminal of the global high-tech oil circulation system, runs through the video like a central thread. However, the trajectory followed by the narrative is by no means a linear one. Circumventing the main players in the region, the video sheds light on a multitude of secondary sceneries. Oil workers, farmers, refugees and prostitutes who live along the pipeline come into profile and contribute to a wider human geography that displaces the singular and powerful signifying practices of oil corporations and oil politicians.