Coal Mining Movies

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

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

Semi-documentary, focusing on the training young boys receive before they are sent down the mines on their first job.

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

The majestic rebirth of Manchester's Bradford Colliery and other stories.

For 200 years, coal mining had been a way of life in Cape Breton. By 1920 things were looking up: miners were unionized and paid decent wages. Then...

The Bimblebox Nature Refuge lies in the path of what will be the earths largest coal mines. One woman, Paola Cassoni, decides to resist the "China...

Short film about coal mining

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

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

Through exploring the body as a landscape, 'The Copper Kings' plays with visual metaphors that connect the patriarchal philosophy and process of...