Hard Oil!
How the Canadians Discovered Oil
★★★★★
English / 29 MIN. / 1980
The Genres
The Synopsis
The story of the early Canadian oil industry from its start in Petrolia and Oil Springs, Ontario, from about 1850 to 1900. Dramatic re-creations blend with archival photographs and diaries to tell the rags-to-riches-to-rags tale of a boom that went bust.