The Stills

PHOTO GALLERY

Images from Long Knife — the evidence, the people, and the land.

An FBI file naming Charles Koch — theft and racketeering on the Osage Reservation. A burning Koch Industries memorandum. A Koch 'Over/(Short)' chart tallying the barrels skimmed. A Koch Oil accounting printout. An internal Koch Industries email printout. A confidential Koch-employee whistleblower, on camera. A confidential Koch-employee whistleblower, on camera. FBI investigator Jim Elroy holds up his credentials. Jim Elroy outside a log cabin. Greg Palast inspecting oil-well piping in the field. Federal prosecutor Ken Ballen, from hearing footage. Researching deeds at a county land-records counter. An oil tank and pipeline fire. A crew working at an active drilling rig. A rusted, abandoned well casing left in a field. An aerial view of an oilfield-equipment salvage yard. A scoring session for the film's music. Composer Mario Grigorov and cellist Heike Schuch recording the score. An Osage woman wrapped in a blanket on a winter prairie. A sepia archival portrait of an Osage woman. A 1920s photograph of Osage citizens with a businessman. An archival photograph of an aviator in an open cockpit, from the Osage oil-boom era. An archival photograph of a ballerina on stage. A young Jim Elroy during his military service.