Coal Mining Movies

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

Black dust, shrill metallic noises, dark tunnels, muscular bodies – all that is the past. At the end of 2018, extraction of coal throughout...

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