Mining Movies

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

A documentary film about mining in saxony

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

The exploitation of the country’s mineral wealth is projected as the most reasonable solution to deal with the economic crisis that plagues...

Stop motion short film against open pit mining.

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

A documentary about the protests of mining workers against the closure of the Krupp steel mill in Rheinhausen.

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...

A visit to Peterlee, Co. Durham.

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

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

Documents the cultural and ecological impacts of coal stripmining, uranium mining, and oil shale development in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and...

Short documentary about mining in east germany.

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