Coal Mining Movies

Short film about coal mining

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.

A small town is overcome by a massive underground coal fire in 1962. As a result hundreds of residents had to be relocated.

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...

Mine Your Own Business is a 2006 documentary film directed and produced by Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney about the Roșia Montană mining...

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

For centuries, freeminers have held the right to mine coal anywhere within the Forest of Dean. To become a freeminer, one must be over 21, born...