Coal Mining Movies

A proto-"documentary" film depicting workers of a mine owned by the Wilgan Coal and Iron Company

This film demonstrates how labor law has crippled the collective bargaining power of unions and weighed the scales of justice against working people....

In July of 2019 the Blackjewel coal company announced it was declaring bankruptcy. Miners were told to stop working mid shift, and their last...

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

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

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

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

A reflection on anarchism and labor, ANCIENT SUNSHINE marks a path through the struggles of climate activism and coal extractions in the American...

Through exploring the body as a landscape, 'The Copper Kings' plays with visual metaphors that connect the patriarchal philosophy and process of...

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...

Short film about coal mining

The Bimblebox Nature Refuge lies in the path of what will be the earths largest coal mines. One woman, Paola Cassoni, decides to resist the "China...