Movies: Mining

The exploitation of the country’s mineral wealth is projected as the most reasonable solution to deal with the economic crisis that plagues Greece. The Greek state has ceded its mining rights over 31.700 ha of land in northern Halkidiki, a region ric...

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Join the working men of a northern powerhouse: on the job in Gateshead workshops and at the long wall of a Northumberland pit....

A docudrama on the closing of the town of Schefferville. When Raoul loses his job at the mine because the operations are ending, he's been settled there for ten years with Carmen and their son. They're now forced to leave the town, leaving behind the...

Throughout her life, Aleksandra has done hard physical work, believing in God and the imminent end of human suffering. Shura, 64, works at the top of the ash hill of the North-Eastern Estonian coal mine....

Eastern capitalists hire a stranger to head out to Arizona to investigate property near the Bar C Ranch, which contains gold. The Bar C is run by Buck Moran, and he and his cowboys are a lawless bunch. They don't know about the gold, but Dave Moore d...

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

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

An investigation into the unfolding history of nuclear testing, uranium mining, and nuclear waste disposal on indigenous lands in the US. It raises the voices of those who witnessed and experienced the consequences of nuclear colonialism and those wh...

The inside story of Polmaise Colliery and the miners who were the first to walk out and the last to go back to work during the miners' strike....

A journey into the mines provides a visual representation of a journey into the conscience of Kentridge's invented character, Soho Eckstein, the white South African property owner who exploits the resources of land and black human labour which are un...

An insight into the lives of the miners who search for Australia’s famous black opals....

Lee Anne Schmitt explores California's landscape and past to document the history of one-time boom towns built and abandoned by the industries that necessitated their creation. Sold as a limitless land expansive with free opportunity, California was ...

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Featuring Paul Robeson, this is the first documentary film to take a serious look at social conditions and race relations in South Africa....

Stop motion short film against open pit mining....

Brought by poverty, Petang and Cereno are driven into the realm of child labor to live by the clock. Film Weekly follows their journey as they step back to breathe and to be children once again....

A documentary about the protests of mining workers against the closure of the Krupp steel mill in Rheinhausen....