Movies: Coal mining

A North Korean coal miner struggles to realize her dream of becoming a circus acrobat....

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

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

“…It is a film that tells in hurried film sequences and a resonant musical score juxtaposing the sublime, funereal despair of Bartok agains tthe gut-bare tones of folk music. Gates has through his filming technique and meticulously selected mining si...

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 First" project that will destroy her Nature Refuge and supply energy to Asia for the next thirty years....

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For centuries, freeminers have held the right to mine coal anywhere within the Forest of Dean. To become a freeminer, one must be over 21, born within the hundred of St Briavels, and have worked underground for a year and a day. Today, Forestry Engl...

The work done by men and women at the coal face and the pit head....

Short film about coal mining...

Mine Your Own Business is a 2006 documentary film directed and produced by Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney about the Roșia Montană mining project. The film asserts that environmentalists' opposition to the mine is unsympathetic to the needs and des...