1898, Daniel Plainview finds silver while prospecting in New Mexico but breaks a leg. Dragging himself from the pit, he takes a sample to an assay office & receives a claim. 1902, he discovers oil in California. Following the death of a worker in an accident, Daniel adopts his orphaned son, H.W.

With a hair-raising orchestral score, stark cinematography, and powerhouse performances, this is an uncompromising, ultra-acclaimed American epic that fires on all cylinders. A titanic feat of filmmaking—the first collaboration of Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day-Lewis.