Mining Movies

Unconventional Olive Barton shocks her aunt when she stages a boxing match during a tea for the new minister. When Olive's father is called West to...

The film is based on the events surrounding the Lengede mining accident in 1963.

Ambar is a young mother who is forced to work in a sand mine after her husband mysteriously vanishes. But what she faces is not just the harshness of...

In the heart of the American west, a miner toils day after day at his rocker box while his young daughter keeps his camp. His daughter persuades him...

1940s British realist film about the life and struggles of a family in a Welsh mining town.

This short documentary film is a fascinating portrait of urban and rural Quebec in the late 1960s, as the province entered modernity. The collective...

A miners in Donbass embrace new technologies with enthusiasm.

Portrait of a community in the heart of South Wales almost one year into the miners' strike of the 1980s.

A no-nonsense engineer is hired to oversee construction of the Whitney Tunnel, a project that has been plagued by a series of mysterious--and often...

Gold fever has gripped northern Niger. In search of the precious metal, and despite the risks, an army of researchers has invaded the sites of...

From the creators of 31 Minutos, here comes the story of a rock that didn't want to grow up...

Unconventional portrayal of mining in the Swedish Lapland ore fields, a powerful image and sound symphony that can be experienced both as a...

A young man is sent by his father to Mexico to investigate his mine. On the way he meets a girl, whose life he has already once saved, who is...

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