Black dust, shrill metallic noises, dark tunnels, muscular bodies – all that is the past. At the end of 2018, extraction of coal throughout Germany came to an end. That same year, the voices of the emerging climate protest movement Fridays for Future grew louder. Against the backdrop of these media and socio-political events, the film follows five miners on their tragic, humorous and heartwarming search for a new role in life.
Narrated by Academy Award winners Sissy Spacek and Herbie Hancock, River of Gold is the disturbing a...
On the 5th of March 1985, a crowd gathered in a South Yorkshire pit village to watch a sight none of...
Unconventional portrayal of mining in the Swedish Lapland ore fields, a powerful image and sound sym...
Documentary chronicling the government relocation of 10,000 Navajo Indians in Arizona.
'The Devil's Miner' tells the story of 14-year-old Basilio who worships the devil for protection whi...
A docudrama on the closing of the town of Schefferville. When Raoul loses his job at the mine becaus...
In this feature documentary, filmmaker Paul Cowan offers an innovative, moving account of the Westra...
From a historic genocide trial to the overthrow of a president, the sweeping story of mounting resis...
Newly into addiction recovery, an urgent threat emerges to spur filmmaker, Mark Titus back to the Al...
A film about the first benefit rock concert when major musicians performed to raise relief funds for...
Documents the cultural and ecological impacts of coal stripmining, uranium mining, and oil shale dev...
The village of Tamaquito lies deep in the forests of Colombia. Here, nature provides the people with...
Ten years after an enormous open-pit gold mine began operations in Malartic, the hoped-for economic ...
This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Compan...
An apocalyptic sound of roaring machines incessantly intrudes into the habitats of man and nature. B...
The documentary features the British miners and their family experiences told through songs, poems, ...
1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners.
Acid rain, economic development, and a century of mining pollute Rocky Mountain waters.
An intimate portrait of John Lokitis, the youngest remaining resident of Centralia, Pennsylvania, an...
The town of Picher, Oklahoma, was once home to the world's richest lead and zinc mining field. After...