Coal Mining Movies

The documentary features the British miners and their family experiences told through songs, poems, pictures and words.

A young trans girl growing up in a small Patagonian mining town secures her dream job as a coal miner as soon as she turns 18, challenging an old...

Short film about coal mining

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

An apocalyptic sound of roaring machines incessantly intrudes into the habitats of man and nature. Barren landscapes and deserted villages linger in...

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

An epic feature documentary about a coal mining town with a fiery immigrant heritage, once pivotal in fueling America’s industrial revolution...

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

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...

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