A Day in the Life of a Coal Miner

For 200 years, coal mining had been a way of life in Cape Breton. By 1920 things were looking up: miners were unionized and paid decent wages. Then th...

Documentary marking the 30th anniversary of the 1984 miners' strike, one of the bitterest industrial disputes in British history, with stories from bo...

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

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

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

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

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

An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war an...

One of the most important Kentuckians of the 20th century, Harry Caudill brought the story of Appalachia to national attention when his book “Night Co...

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

The majestic rebirth of Manchester's Bradford Colliery and other stories.

A small town is overcome by a massive underground coal fire in 1962. As a result hundreds of residents had to be relocated.

The largest leisure and shopping complex in Europe, the Metro Centre in Tynemouth, and its creator John Hall.