PRODUCTION: BBC News
COUNTRY: UK
YEAR: 2023
LENGTH: 53′
MADE BY: Jess Kelly

This documentary reveals the deadly impact of toxic air pollution from the oil giants, exposing children to cancer and endangering the planet with hidden greenhouse gas emissions. The film focuses particularly on Iraq, where oil company profits take priority over human rights, health and climate.

The documentary reveals how the oil giants are making the flaring - the burning of waste gas during oil extraction - illegally and close to local communities. The documentary team goes undercover inside the world's second largest oil field, Rumaila, operated by the British oil giant BP, which is heavily guarded by militias and private security companies.

Here they meet 18-year-old leukaemia survivor Ali, who lives in a town where cancer is "as common as the flu", and interface with Professor Shukri Hassan, an environmental scientist, as he carries out the first pollution monitoring in Rumaila and other oil communities.

Using satellite data, the film reveals how BP is not even counting emissions from Iraq and how its emissions from one oil field alone are greater than the total it admits to producing globally.