Coal Mining Movies

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...

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

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

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

The majestic rebirth of Manchester's Bradford Colliery and other stories.

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

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

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 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...

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...

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...

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

This film takes us into the harsh realm of BC's early coal mines, canneries, and lumber camps; where primitve conditions and speed-ups often cost...

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

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