Coal Mining Movies

What happens to two dying coal towns in British Columbia when an American corporation provides a contract for millions of tons of coking coal? The...

Dismissed from the railroads in 1863 for his union activities, Etienne Lantier found a job at the Voreux coal mine. But work was hard, wages were low...

Glace Bay, Nova Scotia Canada, 1901. Willie MacLean is a 10-year-old boy with a love for horses and liking to school to cape the difficult times his...

For 200 years, coal mining had been a way of life in Cape Breton. By 1920 things were looking up: miners were unionized and paid decent wages. Then...

Short film about coal mining

The village of Tamaquito lies deep in the forests of Colombia. Here, nature provides the people with everything they need. But the Wayúu...

On the 5th of March 1985, a crowd gathered in a South Yorkshire pit village to watch a sight none of them had seen in a year. The villagers, many of...

Documentary chronicling the government relocation of 10,000 Navajo Indians in Arizona.

In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.

Documentary marking the 30th anniversary of the 1984 miners' strike, one of the bitterest industrial disputes in British history, with stories from...

A small town is overcome by a massive underground coal fire in 1962. As a result hundreds of residents had to be relocated.

Semi-documentary, focusing on the training young boys receive before they are sent down the mines on their first job.

Black dust, shrill metallic noises, dark tunnels, muscular bodies – all that is the past. At the end of 2018, extraction of coal throughout...

Mine Your Own Business is a 2006 documentary film directed and produced by Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney about the Roșia Montană mining...

Through exploring the body as a landscape, 'The Copper Kings' plays with visual metaphors that connect the patriarchal philosophy and process of...

An intimate portrait of John Lokitis, the youngest remaining resident of Centralia, Pennsylvania, and his quixotic fight to keep alive a hometown...

A North Korean coal miner struggles to realize her dream of becoming a circus acrobat.

Time-travel to a 1940s classroom with this exemplary educational film.

Southern Gothic tale of a coal miner pushed to his limits for the love of his son.