Mining Movies

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

A prospector in the year 2047 must rescue a girl enslaved by a mutant race of gold-injecting vampires.

A dancehall girl struggles to make a life for herself in the mining camps of Alaska, despite the obstacle of a villainous gambler.

A documentary about Nain, a Labrador Inuit community located near the world's largest nickel and copper deposits. As commercial mining interests...

In the cobalt mining areas of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), babies are being born with horrific birth defects. Scientists...

Join the working men of a northern powerhouse: on the job in Gateshead workshops and at the long wall of a Northumberland pit.

Ten years after an enormous open-pit gold mine began operations in Malartic, the hoped-for economic miracle is nothing more than a mirage. Filmmaker...

It’s an icy cold winter in Ulaanbaatar. Abel, a young French cartographer living in Mongolia, goes to a seminar with his new colleagues. After...

A lawman and two sidekicks clear up a series of crimes related to mining rights.

To see snow and learn German, the young Vietnamese girl Trúc Lâm (Nano Nguyen) moves to a small town in the middle of the Erzgebirge...

A journey into the mines provides a visual representation of a journey into the conscience of Kentridge's invented character, Soho Eckstein, the...

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.

A Swedish mining giant, Boliden, is accused of having dumped 20000 tonnes of toxic waste in a poor neighborhood in a Chilean desert town.

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

In the heart of the American west, a miner toils day after day at his rocker box while his young daughter keeps his camp. His daughter persuades him...

In Nevada’s remote Thacker Pass, a fight for our future is playing out between local Indigenous tribes and powerful state and corporate...

Brazil is one of the most dangerous countries for environmentalists. The rural community of Belisário holds the country's second largest...

Mark Reid, a young prospector, discovers gold in the Sierra foothills. He meets an old man known as "The Good Samaritan," who counsels him and...

The exploitation of the country’s mineral wealth is projected as the most reasonable solution to deal with the economic crisis that plagues...