Mining Movies

Brazil is one of the most dangerous countries for environmentalists. The rural community of Belisário holds the country's second largest...

"It's still men who win coal": a look at the past, present and future of the coal industry.

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

In Nevada’s remote Thacker Pass, a fight for our future is playing out between local Indigenous tribes and powerful state and corporate...

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

A miners in Donbass embrace new technologies with enthusiasm.

The mining industry, which always had been “sponsor” and “financier” of the soccer clubs in the Ruhr valley during the...

Images from Grängesberg's mines. The ore is loaded onto trains and transported to the port of Oxelösund.

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

Documentary marking the 30th anniversary of the 1984 miners' strike, one of the bitterest industrial disputes in British history, with stories from...

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...

Miner Holton lives and works with his daughter Leota near Stormy Creek. Leota loves Dick Raleigh, though her father objects. When prospector Tom...

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...