Coal Mining Movies

Dismissed from the railroads in 1863 for his union activities, Etienne Lantier found a job at the Voreux coal mine. But work was hard, wages were low...

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...

A transgender woman lands her dream job of working in a carbon mine, but after having the sex-change surgery must face a superstition that bans...

An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war...

In 1970s India, Sardar Khan vows to take revenge on the man who killed his father decades earlier.

Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe...

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

Two miles into the earth, nine Appalachian miners struggle to survive after a methane explosion leaves them with one hour of oxygen.

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

Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. A secret society of Irish coal miners, bond by a sacred oath, put pressure on the greedy and ruthless company...

Northern China, 2004. When miner Zhang Baomin returns to his home, a small and isolated mining village, his wife tells him that their son has...

Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame.

When the owner of a Yorkshire coal-mine decides to mechanize to increase profits, the mine's pit ponies are scheduled to be destroyed. So, three...

A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.

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

In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.

A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and management.

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

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

During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.