Coal Mining Movies

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 t...

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 child...

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

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

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....

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

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 Fir...

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 th...

A story of struggle and tragedy, the film features harrowing underground disasters, heroic rescues and traces a history of strikes, industrial turmoil...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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