Coal Mining Movies

Glace Bay, Nova Scotia Canada, 1901. Willie MacLean is a 10-year-old boy with a love for horses and liking to school to cape the difficult times his...

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...

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

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...

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

A story of struggle and tragedy, the film features harrowing underground disasters, heroic rescues and traces a history of strikes, industrial...

In July of 2019 the Blackjewel coal company announced it was declaring bankruptcy. Miners were told to stop working mid shift, and their last...

An intimate portrait of John Lokitis, the youngest remaining resident of Centralia, Pennsylvania, and his quixotic fight to keep alive a hometown...