Big Men

Inside the African Oil Industry

What happens when desperately poor people discover an incredibly valuable resource coveted by multinational corporations? This highly-acclaimed, award-winning New York Times Critics' Pick follows a small group of American explorers at Dallas-based oil company Kosmos Energy over a four-year period as it developed the first commercial oil field in Ghana's history. Filmed with unprecedented access, the story moves from the swamps of Nigeria's Niger Delta to corporate offices where back-room deals are made.

BIG MEN is a window to secret world, where shady characters make oil deals worth billions of dollars and heavily armed militants and mercenaries lurk. It's a fast-paced tour through the high-powered world of African oil deals - a quest for money and power and influence that affects us all.

"Dropping us into a perfect storm of avarice, this cool and incisive snapshot of global capitalism at work is as remarkable for its access as for its refusal to judge." - The New York Times

"If you want to know how the world works, as opposed to how we are told it works - or how we wish it might work - you need to see BIG MEN, a remarkable new investigative documentary about oil, money, Africa and America that comes with Brad Pitt's name attached as executive producer."- Salon.com