Yep you've got it, it's a casino, shares are a bit of paper whose value is whatever some other person'll give for it. Enron's 'chain letter' scheme blew bigger than any other bubble in corporate history, it involved salesmanship and false accounting, in co-operation with Arthur Andersen (who were the US's most prestigous accountants) creating huge and costly power blackouts in California, politically destroying the incumbent governor and Democrat presidential hopeful Gray Davis, in order to forc find out more...

"The largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States. The Halliburton-developed drilling technology of "fracking" or hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a "Saudia Arabia of natural gas" just beneath us. When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks on a cross-country odyssey uncovering a trail of secrets, lies and contamination. A recently drilled nearby Pennsylvania town reports that residents are able to light their drinki find out more...

A highly personalised documentary account of one filmmaker's frustrated attempts to interview the Chairman of General Motors when he closed down 35,000 jobs in his hometown. Instead he focuses on the drastic and wry effects on the town. The result is incisive, witty, and (surprisingly) very, very funny. A Must! find out more...

General Motors EV-1 electric car was a revelation, a non-fossil fuel form of transport that offered a genuine alternative to the gasoline guzzlers that choke America's roads. So why were they all sent to the knackers' yard? 'Who Killed The Electric Car?' is a fascinating, sad and scarily predictable tale of the oil industry's determination to keep profits up regardless of the short and long term global consequences. find out more...