Coal Mining Movies

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...

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.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

Short film about coal mining

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

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

An apocalyptic sound of roaring machines incessantly intrudes into the habitats of man and nature. Barren landscapes and deserted villages linger in...

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

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

A reflection on anarchism and labor, ANCIENT SUNSHINE marks a path through the struggles of climate activism and coal extractions in the American...

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

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

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...

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...