In this feature documentary, filmmaker Paul Cowan offers an innovative, moving account of the Westray coal mine disaster that killed 26 men in Nova Scotia on May 9, 1992. The film focuses on the lives of three widows and three miners lucky enough not to be underground that day when the methane and coal dust ignited. But their lives were torn apart by the events. Meet some of the working men, who felt they had no option but to stay on at Westray. And wives, who heard the rumours, saw their men sometimes bloodied from accidents and stood by them, hoping it would all turn out all right. This is a film about working people everywhere whose lives are often entrusted to companies that violate the most fundamental rules of safety and decency in the name of profit.
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Portrait of Andy Goldsworthy, an artist whose specialty is ephemeral sculptures made from elements o...
From a historic genocide trial to the overthrow of a president, the sweeping story of mounting resis...
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Unconventional portrayal of mining in the Swedish Lapland ore fields, a powerful image and sound sym...
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Ten years after an enormous open-pit gold mine began operations in Malartic, the hoped-for economic ...
Newly into addiction recovery, an urgent threat emerges to spur filmmaker, Mark Titus back to the Al...
The town of Picher, Oklahoma, was once home to the world's richest lead and zinc mining field. After...
Documents the cultural and ecological impacts of coal stripmining, uranium mining, and oil shale dev...
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The Handley Page Halifax four-engined heavy bomber was the unsung hero of Bomber Command during the ...
1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners.
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Glimpses of Nova Scotia, from Halifax to Digby. The off-screen narration cites history, tradition, t...
Acid rain, economic development, and a century of mining pollute Rocky Mountain waters.
Black dust, shrill metallic noises, dark tunnels, muscular bodies – all that is the past. At the end...