Coal Mining Movies

A young trans girl growing up in a small Patagonian mining town secures her dream job as a coal miner as soon as she turns 18, challenging an old...

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

Short film about coal mining

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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