Movies: Coal mining
- 1941

How Green Was My Valley (1941)
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A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century....
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- 1945

Confidential Agent (1945)
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During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies....
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- 1970

That's the Price (1970)
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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 film follows the consequences for the towns of Natal and Michel, suggesting that industrial growth has ...
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- 1997

Pit Pony (1997)
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Glace Bay, Nova Scotia Canada, 1901. Willie MacLean is a 10-year-old boy with a love for horses and liking to school to cape the difficult times his family has. Willie's stern, but benevolent father is a coal miner in a local mine along with his olde...
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- 1989

The Kingdom of Fun (1989)
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The largest leisure and shopping complex in Europe, the Metro Centre in Tynemouth, and its creator John Hall....
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- 2012

Shenandoah (2012)
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An epic feature documentary about a coal mining town with a fiery immigrant heritage, once pivotal in fueling America’s industrial revolution and today in decline and struggling to survive and retain its identity, soul and values – all of which were ...
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- 2015

La Buena Vida - The Good Life (2015)
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The village of Tamaquito lies deep in the forests of Colombia. Here, nature provides the people with everything they need. But the Wayúu community's way of life is being destroyed by the vast and rapidly growing El Cerrejón coal mine. Determined to s...
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- 2023

Once We Were Pitmen (2023)
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Black dust, shrill metallic noises, dark tunnels, muscular bodies – all that is the past. At the end of 2018, extraction of coal throughout Germany came to an end. That same year, the voices of the emerging climate protest movement Fridays for Future...
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- 1949

Bitva pod zemí (1949)
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- 2014

Moving Mountains (2014)
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A determined housewife goes head-to-head with a $1 billion mining company after its negligent operation ruins her town's water supply....
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- 2024

Victory to the Mimers (2024)
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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. With his beloved family trade targeted by a right-wing government with a long-standing hatred for the arts, a ...
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- 2007

The Town That Was (2007)
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An intimate portrait of John Lokitis, the youngest remaining resident of Centralia, Pennsylvania, and his quixotic fight to keep alive a hometown that has literally disintegrated under his feet. His unbowed determination and steadfast refusal to ackn...
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- 1949

Tinker (1949)
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Semi-documentary, focusing on the training young boys receive before they are sent down the mines on their first job....
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- 2019

Ancient Sunshine (2019)
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A reflection on anarchism and labor, ANCIENT SUNSHINE marks a path through the struggles of climate activism and coal extractions in the American West....
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- 2025

Leaning on the tree (2025)
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An apocalyptic sound of roaring machines incessantly intrudes into the habitats of man and nature. Barren landscapes and deserted villages linger in hypnotic restlessness. A self-destructive system meets resistance....
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- 1995

Justice in the Coalfields (1995)
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This film demonstrates how labor law has crippled the collective bargaining power of unions and weighed the scales of justice against working people. The documentary follows the 1988 United Mine Workers strike against the Pittston Coal Company that f...
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- 1964

Thud and Blunder in "Knock-Off Time" (1964)
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Thud and Blunder learn what not to do while in a coal mine....
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- 1991

"They Didn't Starve Us Out": Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s (1991)
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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 the British Empire Steel Corporation arrived and bought every single steel and coal company in Nova Sc...
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- 2015

Blood on the Coal (2015)
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A story of struggle and tragedy, the film features harrowing underground disasters, heroic rescues and traces a history of strikes, industrial turmoil and the current push by global mining giants to destroy regional communities and replace local mine...
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- 2017

Der lange Abschied von der Kohle (2017)
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