Coal Mining Movies

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...

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

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

Dismissed from the railroads in 1863 for his union activities, Etienne Lantier found a job at the Voreux coal mine. But work was hard, wages were low...

Teaming up with director Karl Francis, Dafydd Hywel speaks to some of the coal miners and their wives who played a huge part in the Miners' Strike of...

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...

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

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

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.

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

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

Short film about coal mining

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...

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

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

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

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