Mining Movies

The catastrophic and avoidable coal mining disaster at the Knox Mine is recounted by the people who lived through the tragedy.

In Nova Lima, gold arrived before the city itself. Fragments of past and future intertwine in the present of this story that begins in 1834 and shows...

A new uranium mill -- the first in the U.S. in 30 years -- would re-connect the economically devastated rural mining community of Naturita, Colorado,...

The inside story of Polmaise Colliery and the miners who were the first to walk out and the last to go back to work during the miners' strike.

A documentary about the protests of mining workers against the closure of the Krupp steel mill in Rheinhausen.

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

Lee Anne Schmitt explores California's landscape and past to document the history of one-time boom towns built and abandoned by the industries that...

In the cobalt mining areas of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), babies are being born with horrific birth defects. Scientists...

Love triangle in Chile

On April 10, 2014, the environmental activist and president of the Junín community, Javier Ramírez, was arrested and sentenced to ten...

Unconventional portrayal of mining in the Swedish Lapland ore fields, a powerful image and sound symphony that can be experienced both as a...

An industrial documentary commissioned by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, this film chronicles the engineering and mining operations at...

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

Documentary about the work of members of the mining rescue station in Handlová, Slovakia.

Classic short film depicts the Klondike gold rush at its peak, when would-be prospectors struggled through harsh conditions to reach the fabled gold...

A prospector in the year 2047 must rescue a girl enslaved by a mutant race of gold-injecting vampires.

A visit to Peterlee, Co. Durham.