Movies: Mining

  • 2001
    Westray

    Westray (2001)

    Westray

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    In this feature documentary, filmmaker Paul Cowan offers an innovative, moving account of the Westray coal mine disaster that killed 26 men in Nova Scotia on May 9, 1992. The film focuses on the lives of three widows and three miners lucky enough not...

    Westray
  • 2024
    Malartic

    Malartic (2024)

    Malartic

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    Ten years after an enormous open-pit gold mine began operations in Malartic, the hoped-for economic miracle is nothing more than a mirage. Filmmaker Nicolas Paquet explores the glaring contrast between the town’s decline and the wealth of the mining ...

    Malartic
  • 2018
    Gold Blooded

    Gold Blooded (2018)

    Gold Blooded

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    Dakota Fred Hurt, Dustin Hurt and the Richardson brothers battle nature, time, and death itself to strike gold under a huge waterfall. This film documents what Fred and Dustin were up to since they left Discovery's GOLD RUSH, and it's the prequel to ...

    Gold Blooded
  • 1990
    Poison in the Rockies

    Poison in the Rockies (1990)

    Poison in the Rockies

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    Acid rain, economic development, and a century of mining pollute Rocky Mountain waters....

    Poison in the Rockies
  • 1990
    Uranium

    Uranium (1990)

    Uranium

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    Explores the consequences of uranium mining in Canada. Toxic and radioactive waste pose profound, long-term environmental hazards. Miners suffer a substantially increased risk of getting cancer. Most mining occurs on Indigenous People's land, violati...

    Uranium
  • 1997
    Eye of the Storm

    Eye of the Storm (1997)

    Eye of the Storm

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    A documentary about Nain, a Labrador Inuit community located near the world's largest nickel and copper deposits. As commercial mining interests prepare to exploit the resources, local residents consider the potential environmental and cultural impac...

    Eye of the Storm
  • 1946
    In the Low

    In the Low (1946)

    In the Low

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    Join the working men of a northern powerhouse: on the job in Gateshead workshops and at the long wall of a Northumberland pit....

    In the Low
  • 2017
    500 Years

    500 Years (2017)

    500 Years

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    From a historic genocide trial to the overthrow of a president, the sweeping story of mounting resistance played out in Guatemala’s recent history is told through the actions and perspectives of the majority indigenous Mayan population, who now stand...

    500 Years
  • 1984
    Haunters of the Deep

    Haunters of the Deep (1984)

    Haunters of the Deep

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    Josh Holman encounters the ghost of a child mine worker with a special warning on the headlands of his Cornish home town, as an old tin mine is about to be re-opened after the discovery of valuable deposits of ore....

    Haunters of the Deep
  • 1935
    Too Tough to Kill

    Too Tough to Kill (1935)

    Too Tough to Kill

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    A no-nonsense engineer is hired to oversee construction of the Whitney Tunnel, a project that has been plagued by a series of mysterious--and often fatal--accidents....

    Too Tough to Kill
  • 1950
    Úderník

    Úderník (1950)

    Úderník

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    Documentary about the emergence of the strike movement in the iron ore mines of Rudňa in Slovakia. The miner Michal Ogurčák introduced a new way of mining iron ore here, overcame initial misunderstandings, and eventually inspired 160 followers to per...

    Úderník
  • 1995
    Yirrkala: Conversations with Dundiwuy Wanambi

    Yirrkala: Conversations with Dundiwuy Wanambi (1995)

    Yirrkala: Conversations with Dundiwuy Wanambi

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    Yirrkala is an Aboriginal township on the Gove Peninsula in Northeast Arnhem Land. It was established as a Methodist mission in 1935 and over the years Yolngu from many different clans moved there. Conversations With Dundiwuy Wanambi is a personal f...

    Yirrkala: Conversations with Dundiwuy Wanambi
  • 1949
    Blue Scar

    Blue Scar (1949)

    Blue Scar

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    1940s British realist film about the life and struggles of a family in a Welsh mining town....

    Blue Scar
  • 2021
    Ninja White

    Ninja White (2021)

    Ninja White

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    It’s an icy cold winter in Ulaanbaatar. Abel, a young French cartographer living in Mongolia, goes to a seminar with his new colleagues. After an evening of drinking, he wakes up in a camp of yurts out in the steppe, alone. Lost, he decides to take t...

    Ninja White
  • 1968
    Ambición sangrienta

    Ambición sangrienta (1968)

    Ambición sangrienta

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    A lawman and two sidekicks clear up a series of crimes related to mining rights....

    Ambición sangrienta
  • 2023
    Thacker Pass: Mining The Sacred

    Thacker Pass: Mining The Sacred (2023)

    Thacker Pass: Mining The Sacred

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    In Nevada’s remote Thacker Pass, a fight for our future is playing out between local Indigenous tribes and powerful state and corporate entities hellbent on mining the lithium beneath their land. Vancouver-based Lithium Americas is developing a massi...

    Thacker Pass: Mining The Sacred
  • 1919
    Put up Your Hands

    Put up Your Hands (1919)

    Put up Your Hands

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    Unconventional Olive Barton shocks her aunt when she stages a boxing match during a tea for the new minister. When Olive's father is called West to attend to some mining interests, Olive sneaks into his private car and accompanies him. Arriving in th...

    Put up Your Hands
  • 1935
    Coal Face

    Coal Face (1935)

    Coal Face

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

    Coal Face
  • 2024
    Det var en gang en fjord

    Det var en gang en fjord (2024)

    Det var en gang en fjord

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    Det var en gang en fjord
  • 2007
    The Creek Runs Red

    The Creek Runs Red (2007)

    The Creek Runs Red

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    The town of Picher, Oklahoma, was once home to the world's richest lead and zinc mining field. After decades of mining, towering piles of mine waste covered 25,000 acres, devastating Quapaw tribal lands and local economies. Acid mine water burned nea...

    The Creek Runs Red