This Academy Award-winning drama follows the story of Daniel Plainview, an ambitious oilman in the early 20th century. After striking it rich in the California oil fields, Plainview's ruthless ambition and greed drive him to build an empire, but at a terrible cost. As Plainview
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There Will Be Blood is a 2007 American epic period drama film co-produced, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, loosely based on the 1927 novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair. It stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor, Ciarán Hinds, and Dillon Freasier. The film follows silver miner-turned-oilman Daniel Plainview (Day-Lewis) as he embarks on a ruthless quest for wealth during the Californian oil boom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.