
Trump and Greenland: The New Rush for Raw Materials
Greenland's ice sheets are melting, opening the Arctic to shipping lanes and resource extraction, and turning the world's largest island into what this film calls a new El Dorado of oil, gas, gold, and rare earths. The film traces how Donald Trump's repeated suggestions that the US buy Greenland, first raised in 2019 and revived after his re-election, have pushed the autonomous Danish territory into the center of a great-power contest involving Washington, Copenhagen, and Moscow. Interviews and on-location footage examine the mining companies staking claims, Denmark's efforts to defend its sovereignty over the island, and Europe's uneasy response to American pressure. It also gives space to Greenlanders themselves, weighing the economic promise of mineral wealth against environmental risk and their own long-running push for independence. Blending historical background on Greenland's colonial ties to Denmark with present-day geopolitical analysis, the documentary lays out why a sparsely populated Arctic island has become a flashpoint for the global order.