Mining Movies

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

Miner Holton lives and works with his daughter Leota near Stormy Creek. Leota loves Dick Raleigh, though her father objects. When prospector Tom...

Portrait of a community in the heart of South Wales almost one year into the miners' strike of the 1980s.

A West Yorkshire story of rewilding wetlands in a landscape once dominated by deep coal mining.

The catastrophic and avoidable coal mining disaster at the Knox Mine is recounted by the people who lived through the tragedy.

Love triangle in Chile

The inside story of Polmaise Colliery and the miners who were the first to walk out and the last to go back to work during the miners' strike.

Milena travels to a remote opal mining community to see her estranged, ill father. Lost and alone, she falls into his bewildering world, where men...

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

Warwick company newsreel material of the Universal Colliery at Senghenydd on fire after an explosion on 14th October 1913, and footage of a funeral...

An investigation into the unfolding history of nuclear testing, uranium mining, and nuclear waste disposal on indigenous lands in the US. It raises...

Two Moroccan brothers arrive in 1960s Belgium, chasing dreams buried deep in the mines of the promised land.

In 1990, when Bischofferode entered the market economy, potash production in East Germany was in third place in the world's export ranking and in...

A documentary about the protests of mining workers against the closure of the Krupp steel mill in Rheinhausen.

A no-nonsense engineer is hired to oversee construction of the Whitney Tunnel, a project that has been plagued by a series of mysterious--and often...

Documentary about the work of members of the mining rescue station in Handlová, Slovakia.