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...

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

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. ...

A determined housewife goes head-to-head with a $1 billion mining company after its negligent operation ruins her town's water supply.

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

This film takes us into the harsh realm of BC's early coal mines, canneries, and lumber camps; where primitve conditions and speed-ups often cost...