Coal Mining Movies

A young trans girl growing up in a small Patagonian mining town secures her dream job as a coal miner as soon as she turns 18, challenging an old...

Short film about coal mining

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...

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

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

What happens to two dying coal towns in British Columbia when an American corporation provides a contract for millions of tons of coking coal? The...

Documentary chronicling the government relocation of 10,000 Navajo Indians in Arizona.

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

An epic feature documentary about a coal mining town with a fiery immigrant heritage, once pivotal in fueling America’s industrial revolution...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Black dust, shrill metallic noises, dark tunnels, muscular bodies – all that is the past. At the end of 2018, extraction of coal throughout...