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 battle between a farming community in the Huasco valley and Canada’s mining giant Barrick Gold with its sidekick Noranda (now part of the Suisse corporation Xstrata). It’s a battle fought high in the Andes cordillera where farmers and local representatives fear the ravages of open pit mining operations in a place where a fragile system of glaciers feeds the rivers that flow into the farmlands built out of the advancing Atacama desert.
Documentary about the emergence of the strike movement in the iron ore mines of Rudňa in Slovakia. T...

An investigation into the unfolding history of nuclear testing, uranium mining, and nuclear waste di...

In this feature documentary, filmmaker Paul Cowan offers an innovative, moving account of the Westra...

Warwick company newsreel material of the Universal Colliery at Senghenydd on fire after an explosion...

Documentary marking the 30th anniversary of the 1984 miners' strike, one of the bitterest industrial...

Gold fever has gripped northern Niger. In search of the precious metal, and despite the risks, an ar...

A film about the first benefit rock concert when major musicians performed to raise relief funds for...

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

This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Compan...

Dakota Fred Hurt, Dustin Hurt and the Richardson brothers battle nature, time, and death itself to s...
An insight into the lives of the miners who search for Australia’s famous black opals.
Documentary about a Finnish mining company struggling with production and environmental management p...

In 1990, when Bischofferode entered the market economy, potash production in East Germany was in thi...
A documentary about Nain, a Labrador Inuit community located near the world's largest nickel and cop...

Documents the cultural and ecological impacts of coal stripmining, uranium mining, and oil shale dev...