Coal Mining Movies

Glace Bay, Nova Scotia Canada, 1901. Willie MacLean is a 10-year-old boy with a love for horses and liking to school to cape the difficult times his...

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

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

The work done by men and women at the coal face and the pit head.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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. ...