Movies: Mining

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

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

Throughout her life, Aleksandra has done hard physical work, believing in God and the imminent end of human suffering. Shura, 64, works at the top of the ash hill of the North-Eastern Estonian coal mine....

A journey into the mines provides a visual representation of a journey into the conscience of Kentridge's invented character, Soho Eckstein, the white South African property owner who exploits the resources of land and black human labour which are un...

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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....

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Stop motion short film against open pit mining....

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....

A visit to Peterlee, Co. Durham....

Portrait of a community in the heart of South Wales almost one year into the miners' strike of the 1980s....

A multi-generational portrait of women living in the Ruhr region. Part of the seven-part documentary film cycle "Prosper/Ebel. Chronik einer Zeche und ihrer Siedlung"...

An investigation into the unfolding history of nuclear testing, uranium mining, and nuclear waste disposal on indigenous lands in the US. It raises the voices of those who witnessed and experienced the consequences of nuclear colonialism and those wh...

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Mirage of El Dorado leads us into the mountains of northern Chile, where the devastating operations of Canadian mining companies threaten a fragile ecosystem in one of the driest parts of the globe. This « political cowboy flick» follows the pitched ...

A memory-using location film of a stay with a uranium mining community. Using a kaleidoscopic array of experimental techniques, this film explores uranium mining in Canada and its destructive effects on both the environment and the women working in ...

Love triangle in Chile...