Mining Movies

Black dust, shrill metallic noises, dark tunnels, muscular bodies – all that is the past. At the end of 2018, extraction of coal throughout...

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

'The Devil's Miner' tells the story of 14-year-old Basilio who worships the devil for protection while working in a Bolivian silver mine to support...

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

Short documentary about mining in east germany.

Acid rain, economic development, and a century of mining pollute Rocky Mountain waters.

In a town where half the men die down the coalpit, Margaret MacNeil is quite happy being single in her small Cape Breton island town. Until she meets...

Documentary about the emergence of the strike movement in the iron ore mines of Rudňa in Slovakia. The miner Michal Ogurčák...

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

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...

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

A series of strange accidents plaguing a city located near the mine. Two people were pulled through the funnel, which formed after the collapse of...

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...

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...