Long Knife — A True Crime Documentary 
Narrated by Robert De Niro
The Osage Nation, Koch Oil, and the new Killers of the Flower Moon
Narrated by Robert De Niro
“You have to ask yourself: how does some small-time operator out of Wichita suddenly find himself with $6 billion in oil… that isn't his?
You get it the old-fashioned way: you steal it. You steal it from the Indians. It's American as apple pie.
And you know how you get away with it? You muscle some witnesses, buy some politicians, buy judges and cops. And there are those ‘difficult’ ones who won't sell… well, no one talks about them… but we will.”
The Accused
“This is the story of the guy who took the $6 billion — Charlie. But Charlie had a problem: Everett Big Elk Waller. He's an Osage hunter: he hunts down oil rustlers.
And Charlie had another problem: Jim Elroy. Known as the Dirty Harry of the FBI.”
— Robert De Niro, narrating Long Knife
The Heist
The biggest oil heist in U.S. history.
Over $6 billion in crude, carried away in the night by a trucking company — now known as Koch Industries.
For the first time, we can reveal the dark source of the Kochs' first billions — and the genesis of the feared Koch Political Network. Charlie bought, muscled and threatened his way out of one felony indictment after another, controlling U.S. Senators, judges and prosecutors with a grip no mafia boss could dream of.
The Evidence
We've got Charlie's secret taped confession. We've got the eyewitnesses and the stone-cold confidential documents that nail the thievery.
Chief FBI investigator Elroy joins Osage spiritual leader and investigator Waller, who bust the oil rustlers — and re-enact the armed showdown with Koch goons.
You like Landman and The Lowdown? This is the true Oklahoma oil-patch story — far scarier, and the crimes far bigger, than fiction.
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