Coal Mining Movies

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...

Thud and Blunder learn what not to do while in a coal mine.

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

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

A satirical dramedy loosely inspired by the infamous UK Miners' strikes; however this time, the fight isn’t in the pits, but on the stage. ...

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

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

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

Documentary marking the 30th anniversary of the 1984 miners' strike, one of the bitterest industrial disputes in British history, with stories from...

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...

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...

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

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

For centuries, freeminers have held the right to mine coal anywhere within the Forest of Dean. To become a freeminer, one must be over 21, born...

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

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

“…It is a film that tells in hurried film sequences and a resonant musical score juxtaposing the sublime, funereal despair of Bartok...

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

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