The oil industry's grip on U.S. politics is the subject here, hosted by Abby Martin as part of The Empire Files. She interviews investigative journalists Antonia Juhasz, author of "Black Tide," and Greg Palast, author of "Vulture's Picnic," who lay out how the industry writes domestic and international policy, dodges environmental regulation, and treats oil access as a matter worth going to war over. The film traces the pattern back to John D. Rockefeller, who used bribery to control roughly 90 percent of the world's refineries before antitrust efforts stalled against his wealth. It lands on the 2010 BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which killed eleven workers and vast numbers of birds and marine life, and shows how the company paid out a fraction of the fines it owed while funding scientists willing to soften the disaster's public account. The case being made throughout is that oil's power over government has only grown as reserves get scarcer and harder to reach.