Coal Mining Movies

A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.

Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame.

In 1970s India, Sardar Khan vows to take revenge on the man who killed his father decades earlier.

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. ...

Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. A secret society of Irish coal miners, bond by a sacred oath, put pressure on the greedy and ruthless company...

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

Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe...

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

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

Two miles into the earth, nine Appalachian miners struggle to survive after a methane explosion leaves them with one hour of oxygen.

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

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

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...

During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.

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

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...

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

An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war...

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 simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and management.