Coal Mining Movies

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

Short film about coal mining

Glace Bay, Nova Scotia Canada, 1901. Willie MacLean is a 10-year-old boy with a love for horses and liking to school to cape the difficult times his...

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

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

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

In July of 2019 the Blackjewel coal company announced it was declaring bankruptcy. Miners were told to stop working mid shift, and their last...

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

A North Korean coal miner struggles to realize her dream of becoming a circus acrobat.

With the expansion of mining activities in Jharkhand, indigenous populations are at massive risk in terms of displacement and loss of livelihood....

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

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