Coal Mining Movies

A reflection on anarchism and labor, ANCIENT SUNSHINE marks a path through the struggles of climate activism and coal extractions in the American...

This film demonstrates how labor law has crippled the collective bargaining power of unions and weighed the scales of justice against working people....

Semi-documentary, focusing on the training young boys receive before they are sent down the mines on their first job.

Mine Your Own Business is a 2006 documentary film directed and produced by Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney about the Roșia Montană mining...

Through exploring the body as a landscape, 'The Copper Kings' plays with visual metaphors that connect the patriarchal philosophy and process of...

A proto-"documentary" film depicting workers of a mine owned by the Wilgan Coal and Iron Company

For centuries, freeminers have held the right to mine coal anywhere within the Forest of Dean. To become a freeminer, one must be over 21, born...

Short film about coal mining

Thud and Blunder learn what not to do while in a coal mine.

This film takes us into the harsh realm of BC's early coal mines, canneries, and lumber camps; where primitve conditions and speed-ups often cost...

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