Mining Movies

Love triangle in Chile

In the cobalt mining areas of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), babies are being born with horrific birth defects. Scientists...

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

Stop motion short film against open pit mining.

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

The catastrophic and avoidable coal mining disaster at the Knox Mine is recounted by the people who lived through the tragedy.

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

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

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

By 2045, twenty localities in Germany will be resettled because of brown coal open pit mining. The film Waste Land follows the inhabitants of three...

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

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 multi-generational portrait of women living in the Ruhr region. Part of the seven-part documentary film cycle "Prosper/Ebel. Chronik einer Zeche...