Coal Mining Movies

Dismissed from the railroads in 1863 for his union activities, Etienne Lantier found a job at the Voreux coal mine. But work was hard, wages were low...

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

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

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

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...

Northern China, 2004. When miner Zhang Baomin returns to his home, a small and isolated mining village, his wife tells him that their son has...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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.

When the owner of a Yorkshire coal-mine decides to mechanize to increase profits, the mine's pit ponies are scheduled to be destroyed. So, three...

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

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.

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

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