Coal Mining Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

An apocalyptic sound of roaring machines incessantly intrudes into the habitats of man and nature. Barren landscapes and deserted villages linger in...

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

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...

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

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

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...