Mining Movies

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

Miner Holton lives and works with his daughter Leota near Stormy Creek. Leota loves Dick Raleigh, though her father objects. When prospector Tom...

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

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...

Unconventional Olive Barton shocks her aunt when she stages a boxing match during a tea for the new minister. When Olive's father is called West to...

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

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

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

On April 10, 2014, the environmental activist and president of the Junín community, Javier Ramírez, was arrested and sentenced to ten...

Explores the consequences of uranium mining in Canada. Toxic and radioactive waste pose profound, long-term environmental hazards. Miners suffer a...

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

Unconventional portrayal of mining in the Swedish Lapland ore fields, a powerful image and sound symphony that can be experienced both as a...

Documentary on the lives and hopes of the people living in Arlit, Niger and working in its uranium mine.

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

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

"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....

In 1990, when Bischofferode entered the market economy, potash production in East Germany was in third place in the world's export ranking and in...