Coal Mining Movies

Two miles into the earth, nine Appalachian miners struggle to survive after a methane explosion leaves them with one hour of oxygen.

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

Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. A secret society of Irish coal miners, bond by a sacred oath, put pressure on the greedy and ruthless company...

Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe...

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

Dismissed from the railroads in 1863 for his union activities, Etienne Lantier found a job at the Voreux coal mine. But work was hard, wages were low...

In 1970s India, Sardar Khan vows to take revenge on the man who killed his father decades earlier.

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...

A transgender woman lands her dream job of working in a carbon mine, but after having the sex-change surgery must face a superstition that bans...

An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war...

In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.

Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame.

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

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

During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.

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

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...

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

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. ...

When the owner of a Yorkshire coal-mine decides to mechanize to increase profits, the mine's pit ponies are scheduled to be destroyed. So, three...