Mining Movies

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

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...

Ten years after an enormous open-pit gold mine began operations in Malartic, the hoped-for economic miracle is nothing more than a mirage. Filmmaker...

Stop motion short film against open pit mining.

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

By 2045, twenty localities in Germany will be resettled because of brown coal open pit mining. The film Waste Land follows the inhabitants of three...

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

A visit to Peterlee, Co. Durham.

A miners in Donbass embrace new technologies with enthusiasm.

Brought by poverty, Petang and Cereno are driven into the realm of child labor to live by the clock. Film Weekly follows their journey as they step...

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...

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

A documentary about Nain, a Labrador Inuit community located near the world's largest nickel and copper deposits. As commercial mining interests...

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

The mining industry, which always had been “sponsor” and “financier” of the soccer clubs in the Ruhr valley during the...

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

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...