Mining Movies

Featuring Paul Robeson, this is the first documentary film to take a serious look at social conditions and race relations in South Africa.

Portrait of a community in the heart of South Wales almost one year into the miners' strike of the 1980s.

An insight into the lives of the miners who search for Australia’s famous black opals.

A docudrama on the closing of the town of Schefferville. When Raoul loses his job at the mine because the operations are ending, he's been settled...

"It's still men who win coal": a look at the past, present and future of the coal industry.

In 1990, when Bischofferode entered the market economy, potash production in East Germany was in third place in the world's export ranking and in...

This short documentary film is a fascinating portrait of urban and rural Quebec in the late 1960s, as the province entered modernity. The collective...

Stop motion short film against open pit mining.

In a city exploited by mining, Josué can’t sleep. Surrounded by mountains, fears, and frustrations, he reflects incessantly on the...

A West Yorkshire story of rewilding wetlands in a landscape once dominated by deep coal mining.

A visit to Peterlee, Co. Durham.

The mining industry, which always had been “sponsor” and “financier” of the soccer clubs in the Ruhr valley during the...

On April 10, 2014, the environmental activist and president of the Junín community, Javier Ramírez, was arrested and sentenced to ten...

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...

Images from Grängesberg's mines. The ore is loaded onto trains and transported to the port of Oxelösund.