Mining Movies

Dakota Fred Hurt, Dustin Hurt and the Richardson brothers battle nature, time, and death itself to strike gold under a huge waterfall. This film...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love triangle in Chile

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

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...

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...

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

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.

Explores the consequences of uranium mining in Canada. Toxic and radioactive waste pose profound, long-term environmental hazards. Miners suffer a...

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