Mining Movies

An insight into the lives of the miners who search for Australia’s famous black opals.

Documentary about the emergence of the strike movement in the iron ore mines of Rudňa in Slovakia. The miner Michal Ogurčák...

Featuring Paul Robeson, this is the first documentary film to take a serious look at social conditions and race relations in South Africa.

The inside story of Polmaise Colliery and the miners who were the first to walk out and the last to go back to work during the miners' strike.

In July of 2019 the Blackjewel coal company announced it was declaring bankruptcy. Miners were told to stop working mid shift, and their last...

The catastrophic and avoidable coal mining disaster at the Knox Mine is recounted by the people who lived through the tragedy.

A documentary film about mining in saxony

A documentary about the protests of mining workers against the closure of the Krupp steel mill in Rheinhausen.

Throughout her life, Aleksandra has done hard physical work, believing in God and the imminent end of human suffering. Shura, 64, works at the top of...

A docudrama on the closing of the town of Schefferville. When Raoul loses his job at the mine because the operations are ending, he's been settled...

"Dayas", a term referring to the process of gold extraction from the ore, is a short film that aims to showcase the Igorot culture and local talents....

Warwick company newsreel material of the Universal Colliery at Senghenydd on fire after an explosion on 14th October 1913, and footage of a funeral...

A visit to Peterlee, Co. Durham.

"It's still men who win coal": a look at the past, present and future of the coal industry.

A West Yorkshire story of rewilding wetlands in a landscape once dominated by deep coal mining.

Documents the cultural and ecological impacts of coal stripmining, uranium mining, and oil shale development in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and...