Coal Mining Movies

A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and management.

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 documentary features the British miners and their family experiences told through songs, poems, pictures and words.

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. ...

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

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

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

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

A story of struggle and tragedy, the film features harrowing underground disasters, heroic rescues and traces a history of strikes, industrial...

An intimate portrait of John Lokitis, the youngest remaining resident of Centralia, Pennsylvania, and his quixotic fight to keep alive a hometown...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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