Coal Mining Movies

A story of struggle and tragedy, the film features harrowing underground disasters, heroic rescues and traces a history of strikes, industrial...

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

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

In a town where half the men die down the coalpit, Margaret MacNeil is quite happy being single in her small Cape Breton island town. Until she meets...

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...

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.

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

1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners.

This film demonstrates how labor law has crippled the collective bargaining power of unions and weighed the scales of justice against working people....

In July of 2019 the Blackjewel coal company announced it was declaring bankruptcy. Miners were told to stop working mid shift, and their last...

Short film about coal mining

The largest leisure and shopping complex in Europe, the Metro Centre in Tynemouth, and its creator John Hall.

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

With the expansion of mining activities in Jharkhand, indigenous populations are at massive risk in terms of displacement and loss of livelihood....

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

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

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