Mining Movies

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...

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

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

Two Moroccan brothers arrive in 1960s Belgium, chasing dreams buried deep in the mines of the promised land.

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

Newly into addiction recovery, an urgent threat emerges to spur filmmaker, Mark Titus back to the Alaskan wilderness - where the people of Bristol...

A memory-using location film of a stay with a uranium mining community. Using a kaleidoscopic array of experimental techniques, this film explores...

A visit to Peterlee, Co. Durham.

An industrial documentary commissioned by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, this film chronicles the engineering and mining operations at...

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...

Warwick company newsreel material of the Universal Colliery at Senghenydd on fire after an explosion on 14th October 1913, and footage of a funeral...

The exploitation of the country’s mineral wealth is projected as the most reasonable solution to deal with the economic crisis that plagues...

Documentary about a Finnish mining company struggling with production and environmental management problems.

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...

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

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

Milena travels to a remote opal mining community to see her estranged, ill father. Lost and alone, she falls into his bewildering world, where men...

Republic of Finland is promoting clean technology by organizing Green Mining seminars where foreign experts tell us how the development of the world...