Coal Mining Movies

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.

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...

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

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. ...

The village of Tamaquito lies deep in the forests of Colombia. Here, nature provides the people with everything they need. But the Wayúu...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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