Mining Movies

A visit to Peterlee, Co. Durham.

The town of Picher, Oklahoma, was once home to the world's richest lead and zinc mining field. After decades of mining, towering piles of mine waste...

The Bimblebox Nature Refuge lies in the path of what will be the earths largest coal mines. One woman, Paola Cassoni, decides to resist the "China...

"Dayas", a term referring to the process of gold extraction from the ore, is a short film that aims to showcase the Igorot culture and local talents....

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

A docudrama on the closing of the town of Schefferville. When Raoul loses his job at the mine because the operations are ending, he's been settled...

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...

It’s an icy cold winter in Ulaanbaatar. Abel, a young French cartographer living in Mongolia, goes to a seminar with his new colleagues. After...

A journey into the mines provides a visual representation of a journey into the conscience of Kentridge's invented character, Soho Eckstein, the...

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

"It's still men who win coal": a look at the past, present and future of the coal industry.

In 1990, when Bischofferode entered the market economy, potash production in East Germany was in third place in the world's export ranking and in...