Movies: Coal mining

A determined housewife goes head-to-head with a $1 billion mining company after its negligent operation ruins her town's water supply....

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

An intimate portrait of John Lokitis, the youngest remaining resident of Centralia, Pennsylvania, and his quixotic fight to keep alive a hometown that has literally disintegrated under his feet. His unbowed determination and steadfast refusal to ackn...

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

The majestic rebirth of Manchester's Bradford Colliery and other stories....

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

An epic feature documentary about a coal mining town with a fiery immigrant heritage, once pivotal in fueling America’s industrial revolution and today in decline and struggling to survive and retain its identity, soul and values – all of which were ...

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

An apocalyptic sound of roaring machines incessantly intrudes into the habitats of man and nature. Barren landscapes and deserted villages linger in hypnotic restlessness. A self-destructive system meets resistance....

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

This film takes us into the harsh realm of BC's early coal mines, canneries, and lumber camps; where primitve conditions and speed-ups often cost lives. Then, the film moves through the unemployed' struggles of the '30s, post WWII equity campaigns, ...

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

“…It is a film that tells in hurried film sequences and a resonant musical score juxtaposing the sublime, funereal despair of Bartok agains tthe gut-bare tones of folk music. Gates has through his filming technique and meticulously selected mining si...

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

Thud and Blunder learn what not to do while in a coal mine....

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 film follows the consequences for the towns of Natal and Michel, suggesting that industrial growth has ...

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 the British Empire Steel Corporation arrived and bought every single steel and coal company in Nova Sc...

This film demonstrates how labor law has crippled the collective bargaining power of unions and weighed the scales of justice against working people. The documentary follows the 1988 United Mine Workers strike against the Pittston Coal Company that f...