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

An epic feature documentary about a coal mining town with a fiery immigrant heritage, once pivotal in fueling America’s industrial revolution...

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.

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

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.

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...

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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