GasLand

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GasLand patiently and powerfully outlines alarming problems with modern fuel extraction -- and the horrific public health risks that go along with them.

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Movie Info

When Josh Fox receives a $100,000 offer from a natural gas company interested in exploring in his land in Pennsylvania's Delaware River Basin, he decides to do his own research on drilling and the process known as fracking. Josh sets out to interview those who live near drilling sites, and his findings are frightening -- their wells contaminated, residents can actually set their tap water on fire. Visits to sites in Colorado, Wyoming and Texas yield similar horrific findings.

Genre:

documentary
Original Language:

English
Director:

Josh Fox
Producer:

Josh Fox, Trish Adlesic, Molly Gandour
Writer:

Josh Fox
Release Date (Streaming):

Dec 5, 2016
Runtime:

1h 45m
Production Co:

HBO Documentary Films

Cast & Crew

Josh Fox
Narrator

Aubrey K. McClendon

Mike Markham

Marsha Mendenhall

Weston Wilson

Maurice Hinchey

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Critic Reviews for GasLand

Gasland will no doubt spark the political debate it intends.

January 20, 2011 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Zara Miller
Little White Lies
Josh Fox puts a fresh spin on a well-drilled - if continually relevant - story.

January 18, 2011 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Patrick Peters
Empire Magazine
Cheney, the great outdoorsman, nearly killed a friend while hunting. That was nothing, however, compared with what he's been doing to thousands of his fellow countrymen.

January 18, 2011 | Full Review…

Philip French
Guardian
With a remorselessness all the more powerful for its quiet unfussiness, Fox builds up a riveting portrait of near-apocalyptic environmental damage and a corporate mindset willing to ruin water sources irrevocably for the sake of a few years' profit.

January 18, 2011 | Full Review…

Sam Davies
Sight and Sound
It's a powerful film.

January 13, 2011 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Peter Bradshaw
Guardian
Gasland may be the first ever American film in which Nixon is the hero. It is the 101st in which Dick Cheney is the villain.

January 12, 2011 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Nigel Andrews
Financial Times
GasLand shows ordinary Americans setting their formerly potable kitchen tap water on fire, it looks like a special effect, but sadly isn't.

March 10, 2020 | Full Review…

Kathi Maio
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
Recommended, especially for those who still think the Gulf spill is just a local problem.

October 19, 2018 | Full Review…

Tim Heffernan
Esquire Magazine
This is the new American landscape, where George Romero meets Henry Thoreau.

April 30, 2018 | Full Review…

A.S. Hamrah
n+1
A must-see documentary

May 1, 2013 | Rating: 80/100 | Full Review…

Dan Jardine
Cinemania
An absorbing, level-headed documentary exposing the way in which nothing is allowed to stand in the path of corporate greed.

January 18, 2011 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Allan Hunter
Daily Express (UK)
By turns shocking and deeply upsetting, Gasland is a powerful, well made eco-documentary that carries a vitally important message.

January 15, 2011 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Matthew Turner
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Audience Reviews for GasLand

Jun 08, 2012

Brilliant film that depicts environmental woes and every individual's worst nightmare. Definitely a must see!

Leo L Super Reviewer
Sep 27, 2011

We are all seriously fucked. That is all I have to say about this film that will should have bested all others at the 2011 Oscars for Best Documentary. Horrifyingly amazing.

Matthew R Super Reviewer
Jul 01, 2011

Scary and shocking, Gasland opened my eyes to the practise of Hydrolic Fracturing or "Fracking" and it's effects on the groundwater and on the people who are affected. The statistics and the footage of interviews and conferences, are just so upsetting to see. How can people be treated this way?? Gasland is a documentary you do not want to miss.

Raymond W Super Reviewer
Mar 17, 2011

A look at the effect of natural gas drilling seems to be having on many parts of the u.s.a. a guy shocked at what he was experiencing himself made this doc, where he travels to other parts of the country to see the full effect, and the major problem it seems is the water and especially the water people are having in the homes. theres some shocking truths in the doc, and the struggles many residents have put upon. its going on and its getting bigger. the film is most definatly a warning on how this could very well be the future to everyone.

scott g Super Reviewer