The Black Gold (2025)

Young farmer’s daughter Johanna Lambert works as a maid to support her struggling family. No one suspects that a hidden treasure lies beneath the Lambert family’s woodland: crude oil. Only Richard, the son of neighboring wealthy landowner Wilhelm Pape, knows the truth and dreams of a future with Johanna. Their forbidden love is put to the test when the ruthless oil trader Tyler Robertson arrives, sparking a bitter struggle for power and wealth. Driven by greed, Wilhelm Pape stops at nothing: betrayal, deceit, and the expropriation of the Lamberts push the village to the brink of collapse.

Released Dec. 22, 2025 270 min None+

Genres: Drama, History, TV Movie, Western

Keywords: tmdb.oil, tmdb.german, tmdb.wild-west

Production Companies: ARD, NDR

Country: Germany
Production Country: Germany
Languages: German