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...

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

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...

In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Short film about coal mining

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

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

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

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

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

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