Coal Mining Movies

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

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

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

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

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 t...

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

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

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

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

The Bimblebox Nature Refuge lies in the path of what will be the earths largest coal mines. One woman, Paola Cassoni, decides to resist the "China Fir...

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

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

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

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. With his b...

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 th...

The work done by men and women at the coal face and the pit head.

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

An apocalyptic sound of roaring machines incessantly intrudes into the habitats of man and nature. Barren landscapes and deserted villages linger in h...