Movies: Coal mining

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

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

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

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 them in tears, cheered and clapped as the men of Grimethorpe Colliery marched back to work accompanie...

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

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 ...

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 Neil Currie, a charming and sincere bagpipe-playing, Gaelic-speaking dishwasher. But no matter what ...

A proto-"documentary" film depicting workers of a mine owned by the Wilgan Coal and Iron Company...

Mine Your Own Business is a 2006 documentary film directed and produced by Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney about the Roșia Montană mining project. The film asserts that environmentalists' opposition to the mine is unsympathetic to the needs and des...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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....

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 ...

Short film about coal mining...

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...