Mining Movies

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

A memory-using location film of a stay with a uranium mining community. Using a kaleidoscopic array of experimental techniques, this film explores...

Mirage of El Dorado leads us into the mountains of northern Chile, where the devastating operations of Canadian mining companies threaten a fragile...

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

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

Join the working men of a northern powerhouse: on the job in Gateshead workshops and at the long wall of a Northumberland pit.

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

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

Documentary showing farming in a rural part of Britain.

Short documentary about mining in east germany.

In Nevada’s remote Thacker Pass, a fight for our future is playing out between local Indigenous tribes and powerful state and corporate...

A short documentary following a daring band of unlikely explorers embarking on a quest to uncover the forgotten mines of Cornwall, only to unearth an...

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...

Documentary about a Finnish mining company struggling with production and environmental management problems.

An investigation into the unfolding history of nuclear testing, uranium mining, and nuclear waste disposal on indigenous lands in the US. It raises...

'I Am a Miner's Son' consists of recordings of a flooded mine in southwestern Poland and an abandoned hotel in Greece. It is a wandering through used...