Movies: Coal mining
- 2024
Victory to the Mimers (2024)
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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 ...
- 2012
Comrade Kim Goes Flying (2012)
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A North Korean coal miner struggles to realize her dream of becoming a circus acrobat....
- 1995
Justice in the Coalfields (1995)
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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...
- 2012
Shenandoah (2012)
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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 ...
- 1989
The Kingdom of Fun (1989)
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The largest leisure and shopping complex in Europe, the Metro Centre in Tynemouth, and its creator John Hall....
- 1948
Mining Review 2nd Year No. 4 (1948)
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The majestic rebirth of Manchester's Bradford Colliery and other stories....
- 1947
Iron and Steel Supply of the World (1947)
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Time-travel to a 1940s classroom with this exemplary educational film....
- 2007
The Town That Was (2007)
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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...
- 2009
Down in Number 5 (2009)
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Southern Gothic tale of a coal miner pushed to his limits for the love of his son....
- 2017
Der lange Abschied von der Kohle (2017)
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- 2014
Moving Mountains (2014)
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A determined housewife goes head-to-head with a $1 billion mining company after its negligent operation ruins her town's water supply....
- 2019
Ancient Sunshine (2019)
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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....
- 2014
The Miners' Strike and Me (2014)
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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....
- 2011
These were the reasons (2011)
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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, ...
- 2021
Thatcher vs The Miners: The Battle for Britain (2021)
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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...
- 1991
"They Didn't Starve Us Out": Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s (1991)
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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...
- 1935
Coal Face (1935)
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1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners....
- 1949
Tinker (1949)
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Semi-documentary, focusing on the training young boys receive before they are sent down the mines on their first job....
- 2020
Scenes from the Blackjewel Miners Blockade (2020)
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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...
- 1964
Thud and Blunder in "Knock-Off Time" (1964)
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Thud and Blunder learn what not to do while in a coal mine....