Coal Mining Movies

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.

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

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

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

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

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

What happens to two dying coal towns in British Columbia when an American corporation provides a contract for millions of tons of coking coal? The...

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

The documentary features the British miners and their family experiences told through songs, poems, pictures and words.

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

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.

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

In the Arctic, the Norwegian city of Longyearbyen, located in the Svalbard archipelago, has been extracting coal for one hundred years as an...

Teaming up with director Karl Francis, Dafydd Hywel speaks to some of the coal miners and their wives who played a huge part in the Miners' Strike of...

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

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