Coal Mining Movies

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

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

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

The village of Tamaquito lies deep in the forests of Colombia. Here, nature provides the people with everything they need. But the Wayúu...

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. ...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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