Movies and TvShows featuring "land-management" theme.

Tulsa is a gripping drama that takes place in the 1920s during the oil boom in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The story follows a strong female protagonist who finds herself caught in a romantic rivalry between two oil barons. As the oil industry thrives, she must navigate the greed, ambition, and betrayal that surround her. Along the way, she encounters native American land owners, environmental impacts, and a race against time to save the town from a devastating oil field fire.

The Sea Wall (2008) is a drama set in French Indochina in the 1930s. It follows the story of a landowner who struggles to protect her property and rice fields from a corrupt businessman. The film explores themes of wealth, land management, and the relationship between the rich and the poor.

A record from the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition lead by anthropologist Charles P Mountford that explores the abundant birdlife and waterways of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. Thousands of birds, both native to Australia and from around the world, find sanctuary in the billabongs of Arnhem Land, feeding on the fish, insects and flowers that flourish there. Apart from their beauty, the birds serve the useful purpose of helping to keep the balance of nature in the wilderness areas of Australia’s far north. Close photography makes it possible for some of the more interesting birds to be carefully studied. The film’s soundtrack is perhaps the most unique ever recorded, bringing us the thrilling sound of the voices of thousands of birds breaking the quiet of the virgin bush.

Shed Tears for the River is a sponsored documentary, and is notable as the first film made by the South Australian Film Corporation, set up and financed by the South Australian state government. It celebrates the indigenous identification with river and land, and then looks at the degradation and destruction of the natural environment of the Murray river system in South Australia by human activities … riverboats, houseboats, leisure craft, shacks, development and the filling in of swamps, agriculture and industry and their polluting ways, whether via chemicals, detergents, excrement, fertilizers, barrages, locks, and salts produced by irrigation.