Movies: Coal mining

  • 2012
    Comrade Kim Goes Flying

    Comrade Kim Goes Flying (2012)

    Comrade Kim Goes Flying

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

    Comrade Kim Goes Flying
  • 1989
    The Kingdom of Fun

    The Kingdom of Fun (1989)

    The Kingdom of Fun

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

    The Kingdom of Fun
  • 1947
    Iron and Steel Supply of the World

    Iron and Steel Supply of the World (1947)

    Iron and Steel Supply of the World

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

    Iron and Steel Supply of the World
  • 1995
    Justice in the Coalfields

    Justice in the Coalfields (1995)

    Justice in the Coalfields

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    This film demonstrates how labor law has crippled the collective bargaining power of unions and weighed the scales of justice against working people. The documentary follows the 1988 United Mine Workers strike against the Pittston Coal Company that f...

    Justice in the Coalfields
  • 2021
    Thatcher vs The Miners: The Battle for Britain

    Thatcher vs The Miners: The Battle for Britain (2021)

    Thatcher vs The Miners: The Battle for Britain

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    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 them in tears, cheered and clapped as the men of Grimethorpe Colliery marched back to work accompanie...

    Thatcher vs The Miners: The Battle for Britain
  • 2012
    Shenandoah

    Shenandoah (2012)

    Shenandoah

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    An epic feature documentary about a coal mining town with a fiery immigrant heritage, once pivotal in fueling America’s industrial revolution and today in decline and struggling to survive and retain its identity, soul and values – all of which were ...

    Shenandoah
  • 2009
    Down in Number 5

    Down in Number 5 (2009)

    Down in Number 5

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

    Down in Number 5
  • 2015
    Blood on the Coal

    Blood on the Coal (2015)

    Blood on the Coal

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    A story of struggle and tragedy, the film features harrowing underground disasters, heroic rescues and traces a history of strikes, industrial turmoil and the current push by global mining giants to destroy regional communities and replace local mine...

    Blood on the Coal
  • 2024
    Victory to the Mimers

    Victory to the Mimers (2024)

    Victory to the Mimers

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    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 beloved family trade targeted by a right-wing government with a long-standing hatred for the arts, a ...

    Victory to the Mimers
  • 1948
    Mining Review 2nd Year No. 4

    Mining Review 2nd Year No. 4 (1948)

    Mining Review 2nd Year No. 4

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

    Mining Review 2nd Year No. 4
  • 2017
    Der lange Abschied von der Kohle

    Der lange Abschied von der Kohle (2017)

    Der lange Abschied von der Kohle

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    Der lange Abschied von der Kohle
  • 1964
    Thud and Blunder in

    Thud and Blunder in "Knock-Off Time" (1964)

    Thud and Blunder in "Knock-Off Time"

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

    Thud and Blunder in
  • 1949
    Tinker

    Tinker (1949)

    Tinker

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

    Tinker
  • 2014
    The Miners' Strike and Me

    The Miners' Strike and Me (2014)

    The Miners' Strike and Me

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

    The Miners' Strike and Me
  • 2019
    Ancient Sunshine

    Ancient Sunshine (2019)

    Ancient Sunshine

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

    Ancient Sunshine
  • 2020
    Scenes from the Blackjewel Miners Blockade

    Scenes from the Blackjewel Miners Blockade (2020)

    Scenes from the Blackjewel Miners Blockade

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    In July of 2019 the Blackjewel coal company announced it was declaring bankruptcy. Miners were told to stop working mid shift, and their last paychecks bounced. The miners retaliated by blocking a train full of coal, camping out on the coal tracks fo...

    Scenes from the Blackjewel Miners Blockade
  • 2017
    Centralia: Pennsylvania's Lost Town

    Centralia: Pennsylvania's Lost Town (2017)

    Centralia: Pennsylvania's Lost Town

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

    Centralia: Pennsylvania's Lost Town
  • 1991

    "They Didn't Starve Us Out": Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s (1991)

    "They Didn't Starve Us Out": Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s

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    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 the British Empire Steel Corporation arrived and bought every single steel and coal company in Nova Sc...

  • 2007
    The Town That Was

    The Town That Was (2007)

    The Town That Was

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    An intimate portrait of John Lokitis, the youngest remaining resident of Centralia, Pennsylvania, and his quixotic fight to keep alive a hometown that has literally disintegrated under his feet. His unbowed determination and steadfast refusal to ackn...

    The Town That Was
  • 2011
    These were the reasons

    These were the reasons (2011)

    These were the reasons

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    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 lives. Then, the film moves through the unemployed' struggles of the '30s, post WWII equity campaigns, ...

    These were the reasons