Movies: Mining
- 2001
Westray (2001)
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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...
- 2024
Malartic (2024)
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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 ...
- 2018
Gold Blooded (2018)
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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 ...
- 1990
Poison in the Rockies (1990)
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Acid rain, economic development, and a century of mining pollute Rocky Mountain waters....
- 1990
Uranium (1990)
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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...
- 1997
Eye of the Storm (1997)
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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...
- 1946
In the Low (1946)
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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....
- 2017
500 Years (2017)
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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...
- 1984
Haunters of the Deep (1984)
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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....
- 1935
Too Tough to Kill (1935)
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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....
- 1950
Úderník (1950)
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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...
- 1995
Yirrkala: Conversations with Dundiwuy Wanambi (1995)
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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...
- 1949
Blue Scar (1949)
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1940s British realist film about the life and struggles of a family in a Welsh mining town....
- 2021
Ninja White (2021)
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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...
- 1968
Ambición sangrienta (1968)
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A lawman and two sidekicks clear up a series of crimes related to mining rights....
- 2023
Thacker Pass: Mining The Sacred (2023)
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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...
- 1919
Put up Your Hands (1919)
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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...
- 1935
Coal Face (1935)
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1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners....
- 2024
Det var en gang en fjord (2024)
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- 2007
The Creek Runs Red (2007)
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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...