Mining Movies

Acid rain, economic development, and a century of mining pollute Rocky Mountain waters.

Bob Fulton is the superintendent of a mine in the West. He wins the enmity of dancehall owner Jack King when he saves one of the girls, Rose De...

Narrated by Academy Award winners Sissy Spacek and Herbie Hancock, River of Gold is the disturbing account of a clandestine journey into Peru's...

Eastern capitalists hire a stranger to head out to Arizona to investigate property near the Bar C Ranch, which contains gold. The Bar C is run by...

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

Featuring Paul Robeson, this is the first documentary film to take a serious look at social conditions and race relations in South Africa.

Documentary showing farming in a rural part of Britain.

Unconventional Olive Barton shocks her aunt when she stages a boxing match during a tea for the new minister. When Olive's father is called West to...

June Lorich works at the Mesabi Mine on Minnesota's iron range. After an emotionally and physically abusive marriage, June is determined to make it...

Black dust, shrill metallic noises, dark tunnels, muscular bodies – all that is the past. At the end of 2018, extraction of coal throughout...

From the creators of 31 Minutos, here comes the story of a rock that didn't want to grow up...

Mark Reid, a young prospector, discovers gold in the Sierra foothills. He meets an old man known as "The Good Samaritan," who counsels him and...

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...

In July of 2019 the Blackjewel coal company announced it was declaring bankruptcy. Miners were told to stop working mid shift, and their last...

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...

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

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...