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...

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

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

Thud and Blunder learn what not to do while in a coal mine.

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

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...

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...

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.

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

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...

“…It is a film that tells in hurried film sequences and a resonant musical score juxtaposing the sublime, funereal despair of Bartok...

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

This film demonstrates how labor law has crippled the collective bargaining power of unions and weighed the scales of justice against working people....

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...

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

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