Mining Movies

Short documentary about mining in east germany.

Throughout her life, Aleksandra has done hard physical work, believing in God and the imminent end of human suffering. Shura, 64, works at the top of...

To see snow and learn German, the young Vietnamese girl Trúc Lâm (Nano Nguyen) moves to a small town in the middle of the Erzgebirge...

A dancehall girl struggles to make a life for herself in the mining camps of Alaska, despite the obstacle of a villainous gambler.

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

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

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

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

A miners in Donbass embrace new technologies with enthusiasm.

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

Join the working men of a northern powerhouse: on the job in Gateshead workshops and at the long wall of a Northumberland pit.

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

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

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

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...