Coal Mining Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

The majestic rebirth of Manchester's Bradford Colliery and other stories.

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

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

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...