Coal Mining Movies

Short film about coal mining

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

This film demonstrates how labor law has crippled the collective bargaining power of unions and weighed the scales of justice against working people....