Sarah's Oil (2025)

PG 20251h 43 minDrama

Sarah's Oil

Where to watch

Checking where it’s available…

Availability from JustWatch via TMDB. Offers change often; check the service before you pay.

Wokeness

6/10

Agenda Driven

Ideological messaging drives key plot points and character arcs.

Audience

No ratings

<title>Woke Anti-Western Exploitation Tale</title>This film pushes an anti-Western narrative, portraying greedy white oil barons as evil exploiters of innocent Black families like Sarah Rector's during Oklahoma's 1900s boom, emphasizing racial injustice and deception to lecture on America's dark capitalist underbelly over real storytelling.

What earned the score

  • White Greed Exploits Black Land

    The movie depicts white oil prospectors exploiting Black landowners, including Sarah Rector's family, through greed, deception, and threats during the early 1900s oil boom in Oklahoma amid racial injustice.

  • Evil Deception and Racial Threats

    The film includes scenes of derogatory name-calling, blatant ignorance, and tense confrontations where evil men attempt to deceive and seize the young Sarah's oil-rich land.

Details

Sarah Rector, an African-American girl born in Oklahoma Indian Territory in the early 1900s, believes there is oil beneath the barren land she’s allotted, and her faith is proven right. As greedy oil sharks close in, Sarah turns to her family, friends, and some Texas wildcatters to maintain control of her oil-rich land, eventually becoming among the nation's first female African-American millionaires—at eleven years old.

Starring
Zachary LeviNaya Desir-JohnsonSonequa Martin-GreenGarret DillahuntBridget Regan
Director
Cyrus Nowrasteh
Writer
Tonya BoldenBetsy Giffen NowrastehCyrus Nowrasteh
Genre
Drama
Release Date
Nov 07, 2025

Parents Guide

  • Sex None

    A man has a reputation for sleeping with wealthy women for financial gain.

  • Violence Mild

    A man is shot to death.

    A dog is shot.

    People threaten each other with guns.

    A couple of physical altercations leaving bloody wounds.

    There are discussions of two young children being murdered.

  • Profanity Mild

    Heavy use of racial slurs against African Americans.

  • Drugs None
  • Frightening Scenes Mild

    The threats against a young girl and her family, could be upsetting to sensitive viewers.

Your Review

Seen it? Rate it, and say how woke it felt.

Sign in to review

Signing in also lets you vote on an Example or file a Review Report.

Reviews

No Reviews yet.

More like Sarah's Oil