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...

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. ...

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

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...

When the owner of a Yorkshire coal-mine decides to mechanize to increase profits, the mine's pit ponies are scheduled to be destroyed. So, three...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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